Bug 1540

Summary:	VMWare modules won't compile with 2.4.19
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sandy McArthur <Sandy>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0 RC6 r14
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sandy McArthur 2002-04-04 21:55:56 UTC

When you run vmware-config.pl to compile vmware modules for 2.4.19 it fails when
including linux/malloc.h . You can work around this by removing the following
line from: /lib/modules/2.4.19/build/include/linux/malloc.h

#error linux/malloc.h is deprecated, use linux/slab.h instead.

I guess the correct solution is to either patch the vmware modules source, patch
the gentoo release of the 2.4.19 kernel, or wait for the VM ware guys to release
a new version.

Comment 1 Troy Dack 2002-04-05 03:08:39 UTC

I just modified /lib/modules/2.4.19/build/include/linux/malloc.h and changed
#error linux/malloc.h is deprecated, use linux/slab.h instead.

to:
#warning linux/malloc.h is deprecated, use linux/slab.h instead.

re-ran vmware-config.pl and then changed malloc.h back

everything seems to be working as advertised.

Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-05 16:28:09 UTC

fixed in linux-sources-2.4.19-r1 (on rsync soon)