[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#468864: virtualbox-ose-source: Support for 2.6.25 kernels

[Frans Pop]

Package: virtualbox-ose-source
Version: 1.5.6-dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

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The virtualbox driver module will fail to load if compiled for 2.6.25
kernels with the following message:
   vboxdrv: Unknown symbol change_page_attr

Cause is that this symbol was removed in 2.6.25.

The attached patch adds back that symbol for the vboxdrv module and has
been tested to work.

The patch is based on the series of patches here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel/462
Most of these patches had already been included in the 1.5.6 release, but
for some reason the change_page_attr did not make it. Note that I have
made a minor change to the patch above to make it a bit more conservative.

See also this message from Frank Mehnert on the VB user list:
http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-users/2008-February/002765.html

Please consider applying this patch until that update becomes available.

Cheers,
FJP

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose-source depends on:
ii  bzip2                   1.0.4-3          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  debhelper               6.0.5            helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpatch                  2.0.29           patch maintenance system for Debia
ii  kbuild                  1:0.1.2svn1377-5 framework for writing simple makef
ii  module-assistant        0.10.11.0        tool to make module package creati

virtualbox-ose-source recommends no packages.

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