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

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Control: tags -1 + patch

Hi

The attached debdiff adds support to build and use virtualbox guest 
modules with linux kernel v3.8(-rc7-93-gf741656).

$ LANG= m-a --kvers-list $(uname -r) --kernel-dir /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/ --userdir /tmp/pkg/ --text-mode build virtualbox-guest-source
[…]
kmk[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8-rc7-aptosid-amd64'
  LD      /tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/virtualbox-guest/vboxguest/built-in.o
  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]
  CC [M]  /tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/virtualbox-guest/vboxguest/VBoxGuest2.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/virtualbox-guest/vboxguest/GenericRequest.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/virtualbox-guest/vboxguest/HGCMInternal.o
[…]

$ dpkg --contents virtualbox-guest-modules-3.8-rc7-aptosid-amd64_4.1.18-dfsg-2.1+c0.aptosid.1+3.8~rc7-1~git93.slh.2_amd64.deb 
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-02-17 23:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-02-17 23:35 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-02-17 23:35 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-02-17 23:35 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-02-17 23:35 ./usr/share/doc/virtualbox-guest-modules-3.8-rc7-aptosid-amd64/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     77981 2012-04-05 12:24 ./usr/share/doc/virtualbox-guest-modules-3.8-rc7-aptosid-amd64/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root     17993 2013-02-17 20:13 ./usr/share/doc/virtualbox-guest-modules-3.8-rc7-aptosid-amd64/changelog.Debian.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-02-17 23:35 ./lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-02-17 23:35 ./lib/modules/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-02-17 23:35 ./lib/modules/3.8-rc7-aptosid-amd64/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2013-02-17 23:35 ./lib/modules/3.8-rc7-aptosid-amd64/misc/
-rw-r--r-- root/root    296362 2013-02-17 23:35 ./lib/modules/3.8-rc7-aptosid-amd64/misc/vboxguest.ko
-rw-r--r-- root/root     55692 2013-02-17 23:35 ./lib/modules/3.8-rc7-aptosid-amd64/misc/vboxsf.ko
-rw-r--r-- root/root      6247 2013-02-17 23:35 ./lib/modules/3.8-rc7-aptosid-amd64/misc/vboxvideo.ko

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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