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 More options May 9 2008, 4:29 pm
From: ole...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 13:29:14 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, May 9 2008 4:29 pm
Subject: Re: VMWare on 2.6.25 kernel
Can you confirm that the Japanese patches fix the network issue?
using the sources from any-to-any 117 i apply the all four diffs.
after applying all four diffs i am getting these errors:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only/driver.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only/hub.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only/userif.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only/netif.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only/bridge.o
/tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only/bridge.c: In function ‘VNetBridgeUp’:
/tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only/bridge.c:913: error: implicit
declaration of function ‘dev_net’
/tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only/bridge.c:913: warning: passing
argument 1 of ‘__dev_get_by_name’ makes pointer from integer without a
cast
/tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only/bridge.c:951: warning: passing
argument 1 of ‘sk_alloc’ makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only/bridge.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64'
make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config22/vmnet-only'
Unable to build the vmnet module.

The PATCHES:

diff -ruw vmnet-only.orig/bridge.c vmnet-only/bridge.c
--- vmnet-only.orig/bridge.c 2007-11-28 19:25:06.000000000 +0900
+++ vmnet-only/bridge.c 2008-04-19 19:08:45.000000000 +0900
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@
                         struct net_device *net)  // IN: Network
device
 {
 #ifdef VMW_NETDEV_HAS_NET
-   if (net->nd_net != bridge->internalDev->nd_net) {
+   if (dev_net(net) != dev_net(bridge->internalDev)) {
       return 0;
    }
 #endif

--

diff -ruw vmnet-only.orig/vmnet-only/vmnetInt.h vmnet-only/vmnetInt.h
--- vmnet-only.orig/vmnet-only/vmnetInt.h       2007-11-28
19:25:06.000000000 +0900
+++ vmnet-only/vmnetInt.h       2008-04-20 23:09:00.000000000 +0900
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 #   define dev_lock_list()    read_lock(&dev_base_lock)
 #   define dev_unlock_list()  read_unlock(&dev_base_lock)
 #   ifdef VMW_NETDEV_HAS_NET
-#      define DEV_GET(x)      __dev_get_by_name((x)->internalDev-

>nd_net, (x)->name)

+#      define DEV_GET(x)      __dev_get_by_name((dev_net((x)-
>internalDev)), (x)->name)

 #   else
 #      define DEV_GET(x)      __dev_get_by_name((x)->name)
 #   endif
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@

 #ifdef VMW_NETDEV_HAS_NET
 extern struct proto vmnet_proto;
-#   define compat_sk_alloc(_bri, _pri) sk_alloc((_bri)->internalDev-

>nd_net, \

+#   define compat_sk_alloc(_bri, _pri) sk_alloc((dev_net((_bri)-
>internalDev)), \

                                                 PF_NETLINK, _pri,
&vmnet_proto)
 #elif defined(VMW_HAVE_SK_ALLOC_WITH_PROTO)
 extern struct proto vmnet_proto;

--

diff -ruw vmnet-only.orig/bridge.c vmnet-only/bridge.c
--- vmnet-only.orig/bridge.c 2007-11-28 19:25:06.000000000 +0900
+++ vmnet-only/bridge.c 2008-04-18 10:43:53.000000000 +0900
@@ -886,6 +886,14 @@

*----------------------------------------------------------------------
  */

+static inline void sock_valbool_flag(struct sock *sk, int bit, int
valbool)
+{
+  if (valbool)
+    sock_set_flag(sk, bit);
+  else
+    sock_reset_flag(sk, bit);
+}
+
 int
 VNetBridgeUp(VNetBridge *bridge, // IN: bridge struct
              Bool rtnlLock)      // IN: acquire RTNL lock

--

diff -ruw vmnet-only.orig/filter.c vmnet-only/filter.c
--- vmnet-only.orig/filter.c 2007-11-28 19:11:12.000000000 +0900
+++ vmnet-only/filter.c 2008-04-18 10:50:24.000000000 +0900
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@
 /* netfilter hooks for filtering. */
 static nf_hookfn VNetFilterHookFn;

+#define NF_IP_LOCAL_IN         1
+#define NF_IP_POST_ROUTING      4
+
 static struct nf_hook_ops vmnet_nf_ops[] = {
    {  .hook = VNetFilterHookFn,
       compat_nf_hook_owner

On May 8, 5:57 pm, Peter Teoh <htmldevelo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There is one more here:

> http://myn.meganecco.org/2008041800

> I have yet to verify why this particular patch is needed, as I don't
> Japanese :-).


 
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