Bug 265261 – app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 fails to compile on kernels <=2.6.27

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 255208
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description renato gallo 2009-04-07 08:24:50 UTC]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #255208 +++

vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 fails to compile with 
error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --sync
2. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge vmware-modules
3. 

Actual Results:  




#ls -l /usr/src/linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-01-16 12:30 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7

vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 fails to compile with this message:

Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23/work ...
 .[32;01m*.[0m Preparing vmmon module
make -j3 HOSTCC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= auto-build VMWARE_VER=VME_V65 KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux KBUILD_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make -C /usr/src/linux M=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7'
make[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add `+' to parent make rule.
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:31:
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23/work/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriverSyncCallOnEachCPU':
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1423: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function 'LinuxDriver_Ioctl':
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function'
make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23/work/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2

[Comment 1 renato gallo 2009-04-07 08:28:51 UTC]

please reopen bug Bug #255208 
and add the patch and the ebuild to tree

[Comment 2 renato gallo 2009-04-07 08:29:41 UTC]

Created attachment 187538 [details]
it works with 2.6.29 kernels

[Comment 3 renato gallo 2009-04-07 08:30:11 UTC]

Created attachment 187540 [details]
with this patch please add to tree

[Comment 4 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-04-07 20:37:23 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 255208 ***