Changeset 59978 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer

Timestamp:

Mar 10, 2016 10:16:03 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

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

105943

Message:

bugref:8087: Additions/x11: support non-root X server: simplify handling of kernels too old to build vboxvideo by building a dummy module instead. This saves us some installer logic.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer/vboxadd.sh (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Additions/linux/installer/vboxadd.sh

@@ -315 +315 @@
     fi
     succ_msg
-    if expr `uname -r` '<' '3.11' > /dev/null; then
-        echo "Not building the VirtualBox kernel graphics driver as this Linux version is"
-        echo "too old to use it."
-    else
-        begin "Building the graphics driver module"
-        if ! $BUILDINTMP \
-            --use-module-symvers /tmp/vboxguest-Module.symvers \
-            --module-source $MODULE_SRC/vboxvideo \
-            --no-print-directory install >> $LOG 2>&1; then
-            show_error "Building the graphics driver module failed.  Look at $LOG to find out what went wrong.  All other modules were built successfully."
-        else
-            succ_msg
-        fi
-    fi
+    begin "Building the graphics driver module"
+    if ! $BUILDINTMP \
+        --use-module-symvers /tmp/vboxguest-Module.symvers \
+        --module-source $MODULE_SRC/vboxvideo \
+        --no-print-directory install >> $LOG 2>&1; then
+        show_error "Look at $LOG to find out what went wrong"
+    fi
+    succ_msg
     depmod
     return 0