decoded problem in 2.4.22-pre10
Quoted 10 lines · Stephan von Krawczynski
Hello Petr,
at this time I can't provide you with details or exact reporting as the box has to be used for finding the 2.4.22-pre stability problem I see. And since the crashes take quite some time to occur I cannot reboot and check out what's the deal with the vmware modules.
And frankly: I find the application quite ok but tainting the kernel with the closed source modules is really something to think about, especially since there should be easy ways to avoid that completely.
This is not true. VMware modules are open source, they are just non-GPL.
And no, it is impossible to avoid them. At least nobody I know knows how to avoid them.
There is only known problem (fixed in ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update38.tar.gz) that SuSE backported epoll patches from 2.5.x to both 2.4.19 and 2.4.20, and while this seriously changes poll_initwait semantic, it caused only warning at compile time, but at runtime it was corrupting kernel stack. But I do not see epoll patches in 2.4.22pre10, so it must be something else.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
Quoted 9 lines · On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:46:52 +0200 "Petr Vandrovec" <[email protected]> wrote:
Quoted 6 lines · Stephan von Krawczynski
Hello Petr,
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And frankly: I find the application quite ok but tainting the kernel with the closed source modules is really something to think about, especially since there should be easy ways to avoid that completely.This is not true. VMware modules are open source, they are just non-GPL.
Sorry for my incorrect description of what I really meant. In fact I wanted to express that the _tainting_ (obviously meaning lack of GPL licensing) should be thought about.
Regards,
Stephan