From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265105AbUBIMfi (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:35:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265111AbUBIMfi (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:35:38 -0500 Received: from smtp.vnoc.murphx.net ([217.148.32.26]:56047 "HELO smtp.vnoc.murphx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265105AbUBIMf1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:35:27 -0500 Message-ID: <40277FAA.5040804@gadsdon.giointernet.co.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:40:10 +0000 From: Robert Gadsdon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040206 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel To: Robert Gadsdon CC: Felipe Alfaro Solana , Linux Kernel Mailinglist Subject: Re: Unknown symbol _exit when compiling VMware vmmon.o module - problem with 2.6.3-rc1 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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! >> >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >> linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/