On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 08:51 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Sérgio Basto
<sergio(a)serjux.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 08:03 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have a bug report that can't build virtualbox kmods for
> > > kernels
> > > on
> > > rawhide
> > >
> > > Larry Finger for opensuse wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, it does not work for kernel 4.11. The "#ifndef" will
> > > eventually be
> > > replaced
> > > by "#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 13, 0)", but
> > > that
> > > will
> > > not work
> > > until kernel 4.13-rc1 is released. You asked about 4.13-rc0,
> > > but
> > > that
> > > entity
> > > does not exist here.
> > > If your kernel Makefile does indeed have 4.13, then use the
> > > kernel
> > > version test.
> > >
> > > So the main question is kernel Makefile does indeed have 4.13 ?
> >
> > No, and it won't until upstream releases 4.13-rc1. Merge window
> > kernels are called 4.12+ until that point. The RPM versioning in
> > Fedora is a construct to reflect that we are working on what will
> > be
> > the 4.13 code base.
>
> As I completely understand that we test it , I ask if is it
> possible
> change kernel Makefile to reflect the new release , seems to me
> more
> correct ... .
I'd recommend against it. It's an invented version that would only
live for 2 weeks at a time and be a patch that needs to be applied.
Upstream already expressed dislike for our invented 2.6.40 that we
carried for a while because it causes confusion the other way too
(e.g. "what is 2.6.40?? that's not a real version").
Instead, I'd recommend not building anything external against any
merge window kernel. That is the time of maximal code churn and
given
that upstream doesn't provide a stable kernel ABI/API anyway, it
seems
to be the worst possible time to try and build something. Just wait
for -rc1.
OK , JFTR [1] was not my fault :)
[1]
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4594
josh
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