Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Petr Vandrovec" <> | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:46:52 +0200 | Subject | Re: decoded problem in 2.4.22-pre10 |
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On 5 Aug 03 at 14:23, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > Hello Petr, > > at this time I can't provide you with details or exact reporting as the box has > to be used for finding the 2.4.22-pre stability problem I see. And since the > crashes take quite some time to occur I cannot reboot and check out what's the > deal with the vmware modules. > And frankly: I find the application quite ok but tainting the kernel with the > closed source modules is really something to think about, especially since > there should be easy ways to avoid that completely.
This is not true. VMware modules are open source, they are just non-GPL.
And no, it is impossible to avoid them. At least nobody I know knows how to avoid them.
There is only known problem (fixed in ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update38.tar.gz) that SuSE backported epoll patches from 2.5.x to both 2.4.19 and 2.4.20, and while this seriously changes poll_initwait semantic, it caused only warning at compile time, but at runtime it was corrupting kernel stack. But I do not see epoll patches in 2.4.22pre10, so it must be something else. Best regards, Petr Vandrovec
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