Created attachment 575440 [details, diff] patch for vmmon-only/linux/driver.c and hostif.c patch for vmware-modules-308.5.9 for kernel-5.1
who is the maintainer of the vmware overlay? Could not find it. http://gpo.zugaina.org/Overlays
https://github.com/gentoo/vmware
@ Harris: please c.f. . . . Bug 627666 - vmware: no reply to project status mail esp. https://bugs.gentoo.org/627666#c6 ff. https://bugs.gentoo.org/627666#c14 ff. as well as https://bugs.gentoo.org/663670#c20 Personally, I feel very sorry for this resultant development. Kind regards Manfred