Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

2001-05-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:53:49AM +0200, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > An even better solution would be getting vmware 2.0.4 which seems to > be a bit more 2.4-kernel compliant. > It is not yet announced on their web from what I can see but you may > already fetch it from p.ex. ftp://download1.vmware.c

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

2001-05-01 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This patch replaces a wee bit of code vmware wanted in include/linux/skbuff.h > > although I'm guessing it was removed for a reason and vmware should be patched > > to use the new method. > > > > Better to patch vmware ra

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

2001-05-01 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This patch replaces a wee bit of code vmware wanted in include/linux/skbuff.h > although I'm guessing it was removed for a reason and vmware should be patched > to use the new method. > Better to patch vmware rather than the kernel. Here's a patch thet should be applie

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

2001-05-01 Thread David S. Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > --- skbuff.h.orig Tue May 1 18:41:50 2001 > +++ skbuff.hTue May 1 18:41:55 2001 > @@ -244,6 +244,11 @@ > > /* Internal */ > #define skb_shinfo(SKB)((struct skb_shared_info *)((SKB)->end)) > +/* for vmware */ > +static inline atom

[PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

2001-05-01 Thread tpepper
Despite VMware's webpage claiming compatibility issues with 2.4.x kernels I'd been using it without any problem until I upgraded to 2.4.4. I couldn't use their precompiled modules of course but compiling to match the running kernel worked fine previously. This patch replaces a wee bit of code vm