Changeset 108379 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/drm/vbox_drv.c

Timestamp:

Feb 25, 2025 3:44:10 PM (8 weeks ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

167740

Message:

Additions: Linux: vboxvideo: Print message to dmesg advising to switch to VMSVGA graphics for newer kernels (move to .probe), bugref:10279.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/drm/vbox_drv.c (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/drm/vbox_drv.c

@@ -85 +85 @@
         int ret = 0;
 
+#if RTLNX_VER_MIN(6,0,0)
+        static bool fWarned = false;
+        if (!fWarned)
+        {
+                printk(KERN_ERR "vboxvideo: VM is using legacy graphics controller, "
+                                "please consider to configure this guest to use VMSVGA instead\n");
+                fWarned = true;
+        }
+#endif
+
 # if RTLNX_VER_RANGE(5,14,0, 6,13,0) || RTLNX_RHEL_RANGE(8,6, 8,99)
 #  if RTLNX_VER_MIN(5,15,0) || RTLNX_RHEL_RANGE(8,7, 8,99) || RTLNX_RHEL_MIN(9,1) || RTLNX_SUSE_MAJ_PREREQ(15,4)
@@ -427 +437 @@
                 return -EINVAL;
 
-#if RTLNX_VER_MIN(6,0,0)
-        printk(KERN_ERR "vboxvideo: VM is using legacy graphics controller, "
-                        "please consider to configure this guest to use VMSVGA instead\n");
-#endif
-
         printk("vboxvideo: loading version " VBOX_VERSION_STRING " r" __stringify(VBOX_SVN_REV) "\n");
         if (VBOX_VIDEO_NOMODESET())