{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/17","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/17/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/17/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/17/events","html_url":"https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/17","id":52596375,"number":17,"title":"HGFS fails to compile on kernel 3.17.7","user":{"login":"liayn","id":222377,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/222377?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/liayn","html_url":"https://github.com/liayn","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liayn/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liayn/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liayn/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liayn/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liayn/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liayn/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liayn/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liayn/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liayn/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":11,"created_at":"2014-12-21T14:20:31Z","updated_at":"2015-02-04T22:21:16Z","closed_at":"2015-01-01T07:30:59Z","body":"No solution yet to this problem\r\n\r\n```\r\n/tmp/modconfig-o3DxdS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:1898:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_for_each_entry’\r\n       hlist_for_each_entry(dentry,\r\n       ^\r\nIn file included from include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:106:0,\r\n                 from include/linux/compiler.h:54,\r\n                 from include/uapi/linux/stddef.h:1,\r\n                 from include/linux/stddef.h:4,\r\n                 from ./include/uapi/linux/posix_types.h:4,\r\n                 from include/uapi/linux/types.h:13,\r\n                 from include/linux/types.h:5,\r\n                 from /tmp/modconfig-o3DxdS/vmhgfs-only/./shared/driver-config.h:71,\r\n                 from /tmp/modconfig-o3DxdS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:26:\r\ninclude/linux/compiler-gcc4.h:14:34: error: ‘struct dentry’ has no member named ‘d_alias’\r\n #define __compiler_offsetof(a,b) __builtin_offsetof(a,b)\r\n                                  ^\r\n```\r\n\r\nIn /usr/src/kernels/3.17.4-200.fc20.x86_64/include/linux/dcache.h the struct dentry still contains d_alias."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/comments/72952657","html_url":"https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/17#issuecomment-72952657","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/17","id":72952657,"user":{"login":"rjoliver","id":10854330,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10854330?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rjoliver","html_url":"https://github.com/rjoliver","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rjoliver/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rjoliver/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rjoliver/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rjoliver/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rjoliver/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rjoliver/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rjoliver/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rjoliver/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rjoliver/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-02-04T22:21:16Z","updated_at":"2015-02-04T22:21:16Z","body":"I had the exact same problem, except on a 32-bit system.  Falling back to 3.2.0-74, I was able to recompile VMware tools, including HGFS support, without incident.  I didn't try 3.2.0-75."}}