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oss4-dkms fails to build on linux >=3.11 [error: implicit declaration of function ‘create_proc_entry’]

Bug #1208407 reported by Chris J Arges on 2013-08-05

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	oss4 (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

There are two changes that need to be fixed. Here is the output from the build:

DKMS make.log for oss4-4.2-build2007 for kernel 3.11.0-0-generic (x86_64)
Mon Aug 5 10:41:00 BST 2013
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.11.0-0-generic'
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.o
/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c: In function ‘init_proc_fs’:
/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:287:8: error: implicit declaration of function ‘create_proc_entry’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
        create_proc_entry ("opensound", 0700 | S_IFDIR, NULL)) == NULL)
        ^
/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:286:22: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
   if ((oss_proc_root =
                      ^
/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:293:26: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
   if ((oss_proc_devfiles =
                          ^
/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:300:20: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
   oss_proc_devfiles->proc_fops = &oss_proc_operations;
                    ^
/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c: In function ‘alloc_fop’:
/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:937:6: error: ‘struct file_operations’ has no member named ‘readdir’
   fop->readdir = NULL; /* tmp_readdir; */
      ^
/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:945:14: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
   fop->fsync = oss_no_fsync;
              ^
/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c: In function ‘oss_pci_read_devpath’:
/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.c:1619:3: warning: return discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
   return dev_name(&dip->pcidev->dev);
   ^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2007/build/core/oss_core.o] Error 1