From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261897AbTDQTQq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:16:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261903AbTDQTQq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:16:46 -0400 Received: from relay.pair.com ([209.68.1.20]:41990 "HELO relay.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261897AbTDQTQp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:16:45 -0400 X-pair-Authenticated: 64.211.218.23 Subject: Re: [patch] VMnet/VMware workstation 4.0 From: Daniel Gryniewicz To: Petr Vandrovec Cc: Lucas Correia Villa Real , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1050607717.2477.9.camel@athena.fprintf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3- Date: 17 Apr 2003 15:28:37 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 14:12, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 17 Apr 03 at 13:48, Lucas Correia Villa Real wrote: > > > Is there a "correct" place at vmware.com to send these patches? I tryied > > sending it to feature-request@vmware.com, but I got no response from them. > > > > Anyway, below follows the patch providing support to devfs on the vmnet driver > > for vmware workstation 4.0. > > You can send them to me if you do not trust feature-request... > > Proble with your patch is that it does not look like that it will > build on 2.2.x without complaints, but I can fix that. More important > question to me is: do people really use devfs? > > And if change will not make into next WS release, I can always distribute it > from my site. > Petr Vandrovec Gentoo uses devfs, and some people (like me) use VMware on gentoo. Not that this matters, because the vmware startup files make the correct device nodes. (I've never used vmware on non-devfs but I assumed it works fine there.) Daniel -- Daniel Gryniewicz