Re: Re: vfs: getname() / putname() used by VMware drivers

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 03:48:03PM +0200, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> 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 ;)

Yeah. Well, it is hard for VMware to go back and adjust already released
tools packages ;). I believe this issue is fixed in newer versions and in
open-vm-tools.

BTW, more and more distributions package open-vm-tools and I believe most of
the needed kernel drivers are now in mainline so things should be getting
better. 

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry