From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@kth.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unknown symbol _exit when compiling VMware vmmon.o module
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 19:53:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1076180005.798.16.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xad3u7oaw.fsf@kth.se>
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 19:11, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org> writes:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > After installing VMware Workstation 4.5.0-7174 and running
> > vmware-config.pl, I get the following error when trying to insert
> > vmmon.ko into the kernel:
> >
> > vmmon: Unknown symbol _exit
>
> I've seen it too. I just removed that call from the source and
> rebuilt. It's not supposed to ever get there anyway. I still don't
> understand what it was doing there in the first place. Oddly, it
> compiled with kernel 2.6.2, but not with some later updates.
Yeah! I experienced the same with -mm kernels... It seems the changes
that motivated that have been integrated in mainline now. For now, I've
removed any reference to _exit from the module sources.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-07 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-07 17:40 Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-02-07 17:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-07 18:12 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-02-07 18:01 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-02-07 18:11 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-07 18:53 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana [this message]
2004-02-08 6:33 ` Eugene Teo
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