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SubjectRe: Unknown symbol _exit when compiling VMware vmmon.o module
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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.

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