On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> There is one thing that confuses me a bit. The changelog includes:
> - Linux host: compatibility fixes with Linux > 2.6.24
>
> Should that perhaps have been >= 2.6.24?
>
> Reason I ask is that I have been testing 2.6.25-rc2 and found that the
> virtualbox-ose vboxdrv module (using Debian packages) does still compile,
> but fails to run. The error I get is:
>    vboxdrv: Unknown symbol change_page_attr
>
> Reason is the c-p-a changes in 2.6.25 where this function has been removed
> (commits e1271f68 and d1028a15).
> When I compared the 1.5.4 and 1.5.6 vboxdrv source code, it looks like
> 1.5.6 still uses change_page_attr unchanged.
>
> The kernel developers tell me that the change should be relatively simple,
> but it's beyond my skills. If anybody could point me to a patch, I'd be
> most grateful.

Sorry, this change didn't make it into the release. We will provide an
update package for the kernel module soon.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    innotek GmbH, http://www.innotek.de

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