Re: vmware under pre-release 0.9

[Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:14:08 -0800 (PST), 
Tom Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>when I run vmware-config.pl, I get the following error:
>/tmp/ccIEbMf3.s:8: Warning: Ignoring changed section attributes for
>.modinfo

Ignore, only a warning.  Patch already sent to Linus.

>make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
>Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
>/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon.o: unresolved symbol irq_stat

The code looks OK.  I suspect you are compiling on a machine running
2.2 or an old 2.3 kernel.  irq_stat was not defined until July 2000,
between 2.4.0-test5 and 2.4.0-test6.