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On 01/02/2011 04:43 AM, 4k3nd0 wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> i got trouble building the vmmon module for vmware workstation 7. I |
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> tried with the ebuild driver as the module from vmware himself. Error |
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> message is always the same(her the short one): |
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> Using 2.6.x kernel build system. |
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»struct file_operations« hat kein Element namens »ioctl« |
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The ioctl item in file_operations was removed by the kernel devs a few |
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months ago while removing the Big Kernel Lock(BKL). |
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> Kernelinfo: |
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> Linux Slaxy 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Tue Dec 28 18:29:09 CET 2010 x86_64 |
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> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
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> Work with the 2.6.35 perfectly fine, did not change a thing in the config. |
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The kernel devs change kernel data structures quite often, thereby breaking |
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all kinds of third-party software. I think I remember this one from building |
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nvidia-drivers. The nvidia devs soon re-wrote their code to use the new |
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kernel data-structure, and I imagine that vmware will need to do the same. |
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Maybe they have already fixed it in a newer vmware version, or will soon. |
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IIRC the nvidia team fixed this problem merely by removing any code that |
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refers to the ioctl member of a file_operations structure. That's pretty |
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trivial, so you can give it a try in your vmware code. No warranty implied :) |
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