From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Re: vfs: getname() / putname() used by VMware drivers Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:00:55 -0700 Message-ID: <20140918170055.GB14809@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <23918811.SYffIVGlUb@storm> <2232574.yNYRrO5GdE@storm> <6a462088-47c9-4e92-9162-bf019bca5f4b@email.android.com> <1611991.EqHGTGGzrk@storm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Layton , hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dyno Hongjun Fu To: Thomas Jarosch Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f182.google.com ([209.85.192.182]:64304 "EHLO mail-pd0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752053AbaIRRBA (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:01:00 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f182.google.com with SMTP id w10so1793182pde.13 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:00:59 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1611991.EqHGTGGzrk@storm> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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