Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759574AbYG3It6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:49:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753081AbYG3Itu (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:49:50 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:33214 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753014AbYG3Itt (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:49:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:32:16 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Jeff Chua" Cc: "Eli Collins" , petr@vmware.com, "H. Peter Anvin" , lkml , "Linus Torvalds" Subject: Re: please revert commit 53f1b1433da7eac2607a4a0898a221a4485fd732 (rtc: push the BKL down into the driver ioctl method) Message-ID: <20080730093216.6cbaf99c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4889F78B.9090202@zytor.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 988 Lines: 25 On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:19:55 +0800 "Jeff Chua" wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Eli Collins wrote: > > > The module fixes for 2.6.26+ kernels are in upcoming releases and should > > get backported to older ones. > > Thanks, just let me know when it'll be available and I'll be more than > happy to test it out for you. > > At the mean time, I've worked around the problem by adding back .ioctl > that vmware is can work in 2.6.27-rc1. Thanks for confirming this is the case. I'm intrigued to think that vmware considers itself somehow an independant work when it goes poking around the innards of private kernel structures in this way. I think this breakage speaks volumes Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/