From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161884AbcE3TvZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2016 15:51:25 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f45.google.com ([74.125.82.45]:38720 "EHLO mail-wm0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161690AbcE3TvY (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2016 15:51:24 -0400 Subject: Re: Kernel 4.6 - failing compilation Vmware modules To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <574C58D0.7060800@gmail.com> <127230.1464637464@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Roman Fiala Message-ID: <574C99B8.5020805@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 21:51:20 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <127230.1464637464@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thank you, I will follow your recommendations. Thanks Dne 05/30/2016 v 09:44 PM Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu napsal(a): > On Mon, 30 May 2016 17:14:24 +0200, Roman Fiala said: > >> this is the first time, when I would like to report kernel problem. > It's not a kernel problem, it's an out-of-tree module problem. You really > should take it to the VMWare people. > > Having said that, note that the dkms messages aren't very helpful. What > you'll need to do is build the modules by hand and see what the actual > compile errors are. > >