This is more a 'heads-up' than a request for help, although if anybody knows what changes would be needed to get things building again, that would be very much appreciated.
I'm following upstream kernel development and a very recent change in
Linus' git repository causes the following build failure:
In file included from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/include/iprt/types.h:72,
from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/include/VBox/types.h:21,
from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/SUPDRV.h:26,
from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:22:
include/linux/types.h:40: error: redefinition of typedef ‘uintptr_t’
/usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/include/iprt/stdint.h:118: error: previous
declaration of ‘uintptr_t’ was here
In file included from include/linux/thread_info.h:20,
from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
from include/linux/spinlock.h:49,
from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/SUPDRV.h:87,
from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:22:
include/linux/bitops.h:6:1: warning: "BIT" redefined
In file included from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/include/VBox/cdefs.h:20,
from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/SUPDRV.h:25,
from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:22:
/usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/include/iprt/cdefs.h:1042:1: warning: this is
the location of the previous definition
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fjp/projects/kernel/linux-2.6'
make: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2
I'm seeing this failure since v2.6.24-rc1-290-g3529a23 (output of
'git-describe'); with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32 vboxdrv still built OK.
I'm using the module source from the Debian virtualbox-ose-source package
for 1.5.2.
Cheers,
Frans Pop
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