[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#696011: fix is missing

[Daniel Pocock]

On 12/08/13 18:40, Felix Geyer wrote:
> On 12.08.2013 17:55, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> This bug was supposedly serious and marked RC and then marked done
>>
>> The fixed version was apparently uploaded but is not available in stable
> The bug affected experimental and later unstable and is fixed in both.
> wheezy was never affected by this because the wheezy kernel is based on
> v3.2.

The comments suggest that it also impacts guests, although it doesn't
appear that patching the host's kernel module has any impact on the
guest in this case.



>
>> Can somebody please comment on this?  How can somebody running wheezy
>> use this fix?  Or should the bug be re-opened?
> Apparently you already reopened the bug for whatever reason.
> It shouldn't be surprising that external kernel modules don't work with
> the latest kernel version since the API is constantly changing.
>
> The latest version of virtualbox is in wheezy-backports which is compatible
> with the kernel from wheezy-backports.

An unrelated kernel issue on Thinkpads prevents me running the wheezy
kernel (I put up with it crashing every day for 2 weeks and then had to
take a kernel from sid).

It was relatively easy for me to copy the patch into /usr/src on my
wheezy box and the dkms builds the module successfully - I suspect I
will not be the only person to come across this type of scenario during
the life of wheezy