Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:00:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:00:24 -0500 Received: from mailer3.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.128.54]:12750 "EHLO mailer3.bham.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:00:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:00:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Cooke X-X-Sender: mpc@pc24.sr.bham.ac.uk To: Malcolm Mallardi cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.19-pre4-ac1 vmware and emu10k1 problems In-Reply-To: <20020326160638.A2103@trianna.upcommand.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org They'll fix it eventually / in the 3.1 release, but you can look in the source tarballs and change the #include to include slab.h instead of malloc.h if you're impatient. See: /usr/lib/mvmware/modules/source/*.tar Mark On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Malcolm Mallardi wrote: > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:06:38 -0500 > From: Malcolm Mallardi > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: 2.4.19-pre4-ac1 vmware and emu10k1 problems > > The vmware modules will not compile properly under 2.4.19-pre4-ac1, or > under 2.4.19-pre2-ac2, but compile fine on their mainline kernel > counterparts. Here is the errors that I get from vmware-config.pl: > > Building the vmmon module. > > make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only' > make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only' > make[2]: Entering directory > `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.19-pre4-ac1' > In file included from .././linux/driver.c:38: > /lib/modules/2.4.19-pre4-ac1/build/include/linux/malloc.h:4: #error > linux/malloc.h is deprecated, use linux/slab.h instead. > make[2]: *** [driver.d] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.19-pre4-ac1' > make[1]: *** [deps] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only' > make: *** [auto-build] Error 2 > make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only' > Unable to build the vmmon module. > > > Also, under 2.4.19-pre4-ac1, when the emu10k1 module is loaded, I get a > large amount of constant static until I rmmod it. 2.4.19-pre4's > initialization of the emu10k1 driver is fine, and when the emu10k1 > driver is replaced with the latest CVS version of the emu10k1 driver, > it initializes and performs normally. > > -- > Malcolm D. Mallardi - Dark Freak At Large > "Captain, we are receiving two-hundred eighty-five THOUSAND hails." > AOL: Nuark UIN: 11084092 Y!: Magamo Jabber: Nuark@jabber.com > http://ranka.2y.net:8008/~magamo/index.htm > - > 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/ > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Mark Cooke The views expressed above are mine and are not Systems Programmer necessarily representative of university policy University Of Birmingham URL: http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~mpc/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ - 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/