2007-05-14 01:18:18

by Jeff Chua

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Subject: patch for vmware for Linux-2.6.21

Attached are patches for vmware-5.5.3 to make the vmmon and vmnet
modules compile under Linux-2.6.22-rc1.

Thanks,
Jeff.


Attachments:
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patch-compat_kernel.h (389.00 B)
patch-driver_config.h (333.00 B)
patch-vmnet-2.6.22 (2.57 kB)
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2007-05-14 01:37:00

by Arjan van de Ven

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Subject: Re: patch for vmware for Linux-2.6.21

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:18 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> Attached are patches for vmware-5.5.3 to make the vmmon and vmnet
> modules compile under Linux-2.6.22-rc1.


I'm sorry... but why are you posting these patches here? Those aren't
GPL modules, and thus very offtopic for lkml, maybe except for if you
want to deliberately have people look at non-gpl code ;(


2007-05-14 03:20:01

by Jeff Chua

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Subject: Re: patch for vmware for Linux-2.6.21

On 5/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:18 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:

> I'm sorry... but why are you posting these patches here? Those aren't
> GPL modules, and thus very offtopic for lkml, maybe except for if you
> want to deliberately have people look at non-gpl code ;(

I don't like these non-gpl code myself, but it allowed me to use
Linux-2.6.22 as a base to test the new kvm and hope to migrate to kvm
soon, and I'm sure some others out there would benefit from it as
well. I don't claim the code to be perfect, but by releasing to
others, hopefully someone can tell me where to improve on.


Thanks,
Jeff.

2007-05-14 06:15:23

by Petr Vandrovec

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Subject: [OT] Re: patch for vmware for Linux-2.6.21

Jeff Chua wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:18 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry... but why are you posting these patches here? Those aren't
>> GPL modules, and thus very offtopic for lkml, maybe except for if you
>> want to deliberately have people look at non-gpl code ;(
>
> I don't like these non-gpl code myself, but it allowed me to use
> Linux-2.6.22 as a base to test the new kvm and hope to migrate to kvm
> soon, and I'm sure some others out there would benefit from it as
> well. I don't claim the code to be perfect, but by releasing to
> others, hopefully someone can tell me where to improve on.

I would strongly recommend you using my patches from
http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update110.tar.gz.
Patch you've created causes memory corruption on 2.6.22-rc1 (and few
previous kernels, since csum_start got introduced).
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec

2007-05-14 06:57:16

by Christoph Hellwig

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Subject: Re: patch for vmware for Linux-2.6.21

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:19:52AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:18 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
>
> >I'm sorry... but why are you posting these patches here? Those aren't
> >GPL modules, and thus very offtopic for lkml, maybe except for if you
> >want to deliberately have people look at non-gpl code ;(
>
> I don't like these non-gpl code myself, but it allowed me to use
> Linux-2.6.22 as a base to test the new kvm and hope to migrate to kvm
> soon, and I'm sure some others out there would benefit from it as
> well. I don't claim the code to be perfect, but by releasing to
> others, hopefully someone can tell me where to improve on.

Then open up a vmware support forum. It's entirely offtopic here so
please stop posting this in the future.