Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 04:53:20AM +0100, Markus Ko?mann wrote:
> When trying to build the vmware-5.5.3 (with any-any-update 105 applied) 
> modules on 2.6.20_rc5-20070113193557 ,I get the following error: 
> 
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-rc5-20070113193557-default/build/include/.. 
> SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20-rc5-20070113193557' 
>  CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o 
> In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:85: 
> /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected 
> declaration specifiers or ... before compat_exit 
> /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected 
> declaration specifiers or ... before exit_code 
> /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: warning: type 
> defaults to int in declaration of _syscall1 
> make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 
> make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20-rc5-20070113193557' 
> make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only' 
> Unable to build the vmmon module. 
> 
> Any ideas ? 

Try asking vmware, it's their code that isn't working, not much we can
do about it, sorry :)

And yes, they know they need to update their code, see the comments on
the linux-kernel mailing list for details about this...

thanks,

greg k-h
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