linux-kernel - [OT] Re: patch for vmware for Linux-2.6.21

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Date:	Sun, 13 May 2007 23:15:12 -0700
From:	Petr Vandrovec <petr@...are.com>
To:	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
CC:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [OT] Re: patch for vmware for Linux-2.6.21

Jeff Chua wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:18 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> 
>> I'm sorry... but why are you posting these patches here? Those aren't
>> GPL modules, and thus very offtopic for lkml, maybe except for if you
>> want to deliberately have people look at non-gpl code ;(
> 
> I don't like these non-gpl code myself, but it allowed me to use
> Linux-2.6.22 as a base to test the new kvm and hope to migrate to kvm
> soon, and I'm sure some others out there would benefit from it as
> well. I don't claim the code to be perfect, but by releasing to
> others, hopefully someone can tell me where to improve on.

I would strongly recommend you using my patches from 
http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update110.tar.gz. 
  Patch you've created causes memory corruption on 2.6.22-rc1 (and few 
previous kernels, since csum_start got introduced).
					Best regards,
						Petr Vandrovec

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