Re: open-vm-tools 2009.02.18 with kernel 2.6.29rc5

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

On Friday 20 February 2009 07:28:20 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> >>> On 2/20/2009 at 16:25, Dmitry Torokhov <dt...@vm...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dominique,
> >
> > On Thursday 19 February 2009 01:06:29 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Just downloaded the latest tarball and trying to build the new rpms for
> >> openSUSE. So far no luck. the vmxnet module seems not to be building
> >> anymore:
> >
> > The following should help with vmxnet, I will look in vmxnet3 in a bit.
>
> Dmitry,
>
> Thank you very much. Can this patch also be applied when building against
> older kernels (I integrate it into RPM build process) or only against
> 2.6.29?
>
> Both is possible for me, I can easily %if it and have the patch only on
> newer versions if it would break the old ones.
>

How old is old? I think it should compile with most of 2.6 but not 2.4... I 
have the other part of the patch that has compatibility glue but I didn't 
think you would care for it.

-- 
Dmitry