Small fix for VMWare 3.2 (3.x?) on Redhat 9 (any 2.4.20+ kernel?)

From: erich@uruk.org
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Small fix for VMWare 3.2 (3.x?) on Redhat 9 (any 2.4.20+ kernel?)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 03:34:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E193vrp-0006P4-00@trillium-hollow.org> (raw)


FYI...

I'm running Redhat 9, and to get my copy of VMWare 3.2 working with it,
I had to make a one-line fix to a source file inside the "vmnet.tar" file
for building the vmnet module.

With the fix, VMWare's scripts throw off a lot of what seem to be
irrelevant error messages while configuring, but it runs flawlessly
once the "vmware-config.pl" script completes.

In the default installation, the source files for the vmnet module are in:

   /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar

Here's the patch:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff -ruN vmnet-only.orig/driver.c vmnet-only/driver.c

--- vmnet-only.orig/driver.c    2002-09-09 20:22:41.000000000 -0700
+++ vmnet-only/driver.c 2003-04-10 18:51:22.000000000 -0700
@@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@
     
    len += sprintf(buf+len, "pids ");
  
-   for_each_task(p) {
+   for_each_process(p) {
       if (VNetProcessOwnsPort(p, port)) {
          len += sprintf(buf+len, "%d", p->pid);
          if (seen) {
------------------------------------------------------------------------

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    Erich Stefan Boleyn     <erich@uruk.org>     http://www.uruk.org/
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