Daley Ponderings

I had the privilege of installing VMWare 1.0.5 on a brand new 2.6.25 kernel.  I downloaded the 2.6.XX patch for vmware 1.0.4, applied the one change from asm to linux in vcpuset.h.  That had worked for me before when using 1.0.5 on a 2.6.24 kernel, but today I downloaded a 2.6.25 kernel for someone and of course, someone changed something slightly, causing the vmware module (vmnet) to no longer compile.  Fortunately for me, a small bit of hacking fixed it, and now I can go to bed.The function that is missing in the 2.6.26 kernel is sock_valbool_flag, which was recently made inline, so it causes a "implicit declaration of function" error when running the standard vmware-config.pl script.  I saw that the function still exists in the kernel sources, but was made a static function, and moved to sock.c.  So, after taking a look at the function, I figured it wouldn't hurt to simply copy it from sock.c into vmware's bridge.c and off I went.  tada!