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From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Subject: Re: Re: vfs: getname() / putname() used by VMware drivers
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:48:03 +0200
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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