Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

[Mohammad A. Haque]

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[e-mail] 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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