[Pkg-oss4-maintainers] Bug#696751: oss4-dkms: modules fail to build with recent kernel

[Mikolaj Menke]

Package: oss4-dkms
Version: 4.2-build2007-2.1
Followup-For: Bug #696751

Dear Maintainer,

I was trying to install oss4-dkms with a recent kernel and it fails.
These are the contents of /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/make.log:

DKMS make.log for oss4-4.2-build2007 for kernel 3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae (i686)
Sat Feb  8 21:36:19 CET 2014
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae'
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.o
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c: In function 'init_proc_fs':
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:287:8: error: implicit declaration of function 'create_proc_entry' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:286:22: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:293:26: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:300:20: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c: In function 'oss_get_uid':
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:440:3: error: incompatible types when returning type 'kuid_t' but 'int' was expected
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c: In function 'alloc_fop':
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:937:6: error: 'struct file_operations' has no member named 'readdir'
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:945:14: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c: In function 'oss_pci_read_devpath':
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:1619:3: warning: return discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c: In function 'oss_get_uid':
  /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:444:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
  cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
  make[3]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.o] Error 1
  make[2]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core] Error 2
  make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
  make: *** [all] Error 2
  make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae'
  
By the way - shouldn't this bug's severity be set to grave?

Regards
Mikolaj Menke


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages oss4-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms       2.2.0.3-1.2
ii  dpkg-dev   1.16.12
ii  oss4-base  4.2-build2006-2+deb7u1

Versions of packages oss4-dkms recommends:
ii  linux-headers-686-pae  3.12+55~bpo70+1

oss4-dkms suggests no packages.

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