[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#856537: virtualbox-dkms: virtualbox 5.1.8 module does not build on kernel 4.9.0-0.bpo.1-amd64

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

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Dear ftpmasters, please remove virtualbox frombackports, or allow me to backport the new one.

thanks,

Gianfranco




Il Giovedì 2 Marzo 2017 8:51, Antonio Galea <antonio.galea at gmail.com> ha scritto:
Package: virtualbox-dkms
Version: 5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,
I'm running kernels from backports on a few development machines. With the
latest version 4.9.0, virtualbox dkms does not compile any more.
The problem is related to a small change in kernel API, I include a patch.

Regards,

Antonio

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms  2.2.0.3-2

Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms recommends:
ii  virtualbox  5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2

virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages.

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