Hi all, On Donnerstag, 10. August 2017 10:26:50 CEST Larry Finger wrote: > On 08/09/2017 11:00 AM, Ingmar Sittl wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I ran into a problem with Virtualbox 5.1.26 and Linux kernels 4.4.76 and > > 4.4.79 > > on x86_64 when trying to build the kernel module: > > > > /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1117:33: error: too many > > arguments > > to function ‘get_user_pages’ > > papVMAs); /* vmas */ > > ^ > > [...] > > Are you running openSUSE Leap 42.3, or has someone else stupidly backported > the > get_user_pages() API from kernel 4.9 back to 4.4? > > If you were using a stock 4.4 kernel, then there would be no need for any > changes. In fact, applying the kind of ifdef statements that you recommend > would > break the builds for all the people running kernels that actually follow the > rules regarding API changes. Such modifications to an API should only occur > with > a major version change!
please download the most recent 5.1 Guest Additions ISO image from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds It has the required fix for the openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel, see also https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16966 Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Jan Schultheiss, Val Maher _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
