Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

From: Mohammad A. Haque (mhaque@haque.net)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 20:56:26 EST


tpepper@vato.org 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 applied to source files in
/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar

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diff -urw vmnet-only/vnetInt.h vmnet-only-patched/vnetInt.h --- vmnet-only/vnetInt.h Wed Nov 1 20:48:28 2000 +++ vmnet-only-patched/vnetInt.h Tue Apr 17 23:29:47 2001 @@ -16,9 +16,15 @@ # define KFREE_SKB(skb, type) kfree_skb(skb) # define DEV_KFREE_SKB(skb, type) dev_kfree_skb(skb) # define SKB_INCREF(skb) atomic_inc(&(skb)->users) +# ifdef KERNEL_2_4_0 +# define SKB_IS_CLONE_OF(clone, skb) ( \ + skb_cloned(clone) \ + ) +# else # define SKB_IS_CLONE_OF(clone, skb) ( \ skb_datarefp(clone) == skb_datarefp(skb) \ ) +# endif # define SK_ALLOC(pri) sk_alloc(0, pri, 1) # define DEV_QUEUE_XMIT(skb, dev, pri) ( \ (skb)->dev = (dev), \

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