[PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

[tpepper@vato.org]

Despite VMware's webpage claiming compatibility issues with 2.4.x kernels I'd
been using it without any problem until I upgraded to 2.4.4.  I couldn't use
their precompiled modules of course but compiling to match the running kernel
worked fine previously.

This patch replaces a wee bit of code vmware wanted in include/linux/skbuff.h
although I'm guessing it was removed for a reason and vmware should be patched
to use the new method.

--- skbuff.h.orig       Tue May  1 18:41:50 2001
+++ skbuff.h    Tue May  1 18:41:55 2001
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@
 
 /* Internal */
 #define skb_shinfo(SKB)                ((struct skb_shared_info *)((SKB)->end))
+/* for vmware */
+static inline atomic_t *skb_datarefp(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	return (atomic_t *)(skb->end);
+}
 
 /**
  *     skb_queue_empty - check if a queue is empty


Tim