[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#700823: guest kernel modules fail to build against linux kernel v3.8

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Package: virtualbox-guest-source
Version: 4.1.18-dfsg-2.1
Severity: whishlist
Tags: experimental

Hi

Due to "Remove __dev* markings from init.h" 
(54b956b903607f8f8878754dd4352da6a54a1da2), the virtualbox guest 
modules fail to build against linux v3.8(-rc7-93-gf741656) with the
following error messages:

$ LANG= m-a --kvers-list $(uname -r) --kernel-dir /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/ --userdir /tmp/pkg/ --text-mode build virtualbox-guest-source
[…]
  CC [M]  /tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/virtualbox-guest/vboxguest/VBoxGuest-linux.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/virtualbox-guest/vboxguest/VBoxGuest.o
/tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/virtualbox-guest/vboxguest/VBoxGuest.c: In function 'VBoxGuestCommonIOCtl':
/tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/virtualbox-guest/vboxguest/VBoxGuest.c:2480:9: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code [-Wdeclaration-after-statement]
/tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/virtualbox-guest/vboxguest/VBoxGuest-linux.c:206:49: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'g_VBoxGuestPciId'
/tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/virtualbox-guest/vboxguest/VBoxGuest-linux.c:216:1: error: '__mod_pci_device_table' aliased to undefined symbol 'g_VBoxGuestPciId'
kmk[3]: *** [/tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/virtualbox-guest/vboxguest/VBoxGuest-linux.o] Error 1

I'll follow up with a tested patch adding support for v3.8, as soon 
as I receive the bug number for these issues. Given the targetted 
nature of this, and the previous patches for v3.6 and v3.7 in #696011, 
it should be possible to get an unblock for wheezy as well.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.8-rc7-aptosid-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox-guest-source depends on:
ii  build-essential  11.6
ii  bzip2            1.0.6-4
ii  debhelper        9.20120909
ii  kbuild           1:0.1.9998svn2543+dfsg-1

Versions of packages virtualbox-guest-source recommends:
ii  module-assistant  0.11.4

virtualbox-guest-source suggests no packages.

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