Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:33:32 +0800 | From | Eugene Teo <> | Subject | Re: Unknown symbol _exit when compiling VMware vmmon.o module |
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<quote sender="Felipe Alfaro Solana"> > On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 19:11, M??ns Rullg??rd wrote: > > Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org> writes: > > > 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.
reverse this patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.1/2.6.1-mm5/broken-out/gcc-35-exit-fix.patch
for more info, see http://www.anomalistic.org/#vmware
Eugene
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