From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267024AbUBGSyJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 13:54:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267025AbUBGSyJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 13:54:09 -0500 Received: from 153.Red-213-4-13.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.4.13.153]:6667 "EHLO kerberos.felipe-alfaro.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267024AbUBGSyH (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 13:54:07 -0500 Subject: Re: Unknown symbol _exit when compiling VMware vmmon.o module From: Felipe Alfaro Solana To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1076175615.798.9.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <1076180005.798.16.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-8) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 19:53:25 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 19:11, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Felipe Alfaro Solana 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.