From: Robert Gadsdon <robert@gadsdon.giointernet.co.uk>
To: Robert Gadsdon <robert@gadsdon.giointernet.co.uk>
Cc: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unknown symbol _exit when compiling VMware vmmon.o module - problem with 2.6.3-rc1
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:40:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40277FAA.5040804@gadsdon.giointernet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.j0on9f7.13he7o9@ifi.uio.no>
The latest VMware update -
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update50.tar.gz
fixes this problem, without the need to mess around with the contents of
...include/asm-i386/unistd.h
Robert Gadsdon
Robert Gadsdon wrote:
> I had this problem when recompiling VMware WS 4.0.5 with kernel
> 2.6.3-rc1 (x86 system). 2.6.2 and earlier had been OK..
>
> I found the following reference relating a similar problem with 2.6.1-mm5:
>
> http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=1976&messageID=8243
>
> Re-inserting
> #define __NR__exit __NR_exit
> and
> static inline _syscall1(void,_exit,int,exitcode)
> in ...include/asm-i386/unistd.h fixed the problem for me. I do _not_
> know if this is an acceptable solution, as there may be other
> implications for the removal of this code in 2.6.3-rc1...
>
> Robert Gadsdon.
>
> Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> What can I use instead of _exit(code) inside a module?
>> Thanks!
>>
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2004-02-09 12:40 ` Robert Gadsdon [this message]
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2004-02-07 19:16 ` Robert Gadsdon
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