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Bug 685242 - [vmware-overlay] patches for vmware-modules for kernel 5.1
Summary: [vmware-overlay] patches for vmware-modules for kernel 5.1
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Overlays (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2019-05-07 02:22 UTC by Harris Landgarten
Modified: 2019-05-24 09:27 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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patch for vmmon-only/linux/driver.c and hostif.c (vmware-modules-vmmon.patch,2.06 KB, patch)
2019-05-07 02:22 UTC, Harris Landgarten 		Details | Diff
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Description Harris Landgarten 2019-05-07 02:22:51 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2019-05-07 17:47:01 UTC 
who is the maintainer of the vmware overlay? Could not find it.
http://gpo.zugaina.org/Overlays
Comment 2 Harris Landgarten 2019-05-07 17:59:38 UTC 
https://github.com/gentoo/vmware
Comment 3 Manfred Knick 2019-05-24 09:27:08 UTC 
@ 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