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From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>,
	hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>,
	Dyno Hongjun Fu <hfu@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: Re: vfs: getname() / putname() used by VMware drivers
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:48:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1611991.EqHGTGGzrk@storm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a462088-47c9-4e92-9162-bf019bca5f4b@email.android.com>

Hi Dmitry,

On Monday, 15. September 2014 08:28:33 Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >> As Christoph says...no, there's no way that we'll revert that.
> >> 
> >> Those functions have hooks into the audit layer and 3rd party modules
> >> almost universally got their usage wrong.
> >
> >thanks for the explanation, especially about the audit layer part.
> 
> You do not need neither vmsync nor vmblock on kernels past 3.0 so just
> hack around vmware-coonfig-tools.pl (or whatever the install script is
> called) and do not compile them.

thanks for the hint, that makes things a lot easier.

Probably a lot of people on the web could stop to publish
compiling-but-more-or-less-working patches to port
those modules to recent kernels ;)

Thanks again,
Thomas


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-18 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-12 13:57 vfs: getname() / putname() used by VMware drivers Thomas Jarosch
2014-09-12 22:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-13  2:12 ` Jeff Layton
2014-09-15  7:41   ` Thomas Jarosch
2014-09-15 15:28     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-09-18 13:48       ` Thomas Jarosch [this message]
2014-09-18 17:00         ` Dmitry Torokhov

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