Re: decoded problem in 2.4.22-pre10

["Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>]

On  5 Aug 03 at 14:23, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> 
> Hello Petr,
> 
> at this time I can't provide you with details or exact reporting as the box has
> to be used for finding the 2.4.22-pre stability problem I see. And since the
> crashes take quite some time to occur I cannot reboot and check out what's the
> deal with the vmware modules.
> And frankly: I find the application quite ok but tainting the kernel with the
> closed source modules is really something to think about, especially since
> there should be easy ways to avoid that completely.

This is not true. VMware modules are open source, they are just non-GPL.

And no, it is impossible to avoid them. At least nobody I know knows how
to avoid them.

There is only known problem (fixed in 
ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update38.tar.gz) that
SuSE backported epoll patches from 2.5.x to both 2.4.19 and 2.4.20, and
while this seriously changes poll_initwait semantic, it caused only
warning at compile time, but at runtime it was corrupting kernel
stack. But I do not see epoll patches in 2.4.22pre10, so it must
be something else.
                                                    Best regards,
                                                        Petr Vandrovec