From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Romain Naour Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:38:34 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] package/openvmtools: fix syncDriverPosix In-Reply-To: <20150214092058.1269ba68@free-electrons.com> References: <1423437730-22997-1-git-send-email-romain.naour@openwide.fr> <1423437730-22997-2-git-send-email-romain.naour@openwide.fr> <20150214092058.1269ba68@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <54DF33BA.3090008@openwide.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Thomas, Le 14/02/2015 09:20, Thomas Petazzoni a ?crit : > Dear Romain Naour, > > On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 00:22:09 +0100, Romain Naour wrote: >> Backport a patch from Fedora >> >> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour >> --- >> package/openvmtools/0007-sizeof_argument.patch | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) >> create mode 100644 package/openvmtools/0007-sizeof_argument.patch > > Applied to master, thanks. > > Note that Debian also has a collection of patches on open-vm-tools, and > at least two of them seem to fix security related issues. Is this stuff > still maintained upstream? They have apparently moved their development > to github, at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools. > Indeed, I've cloned this repository to check if the Fedora patches were merged. It seems that it is still maintained, but not on regular basis. I think the two patches from Debian needs further testing... Karoly can you review those patches ? In the meantime, I'll try to have some time next week to test this package with our VWware image at work. > Can you check if those patches were merged here already? Not yet, the last commit has been merged the 28/10/2014. Best regards, Romain > > Thanks! > > Thomas >