They'll fix it eventually / in the 3.1 release, but you can look in
the source tarballs and change the #include to include slab.h instead
of malloc.h if you're impatient.
See: /usr/lib/mvmware/modules/source/*.tar
Mark
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Malcolm Mallardi wrote:
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:06:38 -0500
> From: Malcolm Mallardi <magamo@ranka.2y.net>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: 2.4.19-pre4-ac1 vmware and emu10k1 problems
>
> The vmware modules will not compile properly under 2.4.19-pre4-ac1, or
> under 2.4.19-pre2-ac2, but compile fine on their mainline kernel
> counterparts. Here is the errors that I get from vmware-config.pl:
>
> Building the vmmon module.
>
> make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
> make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.19-pre4-ac1'
> In file included from .././linux/driver.c:38:
> /lib/modules/2.4.19-pre4-ac1/build/include/linux/malloc.h:4: #error
> linux/malloc.h is deprecated, use linux/slab.h instead.
> make[2]: *** [driver.d] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.19-pre4-ac1'
> make[1]: *** [deps] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
> make: *** [auto-build] Error 2
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
> Unable to build the vmmon module.
>
>
> Also, under 2.4.19-pre4-ac1, when the emu10k1 module is loaded, I get a
> large amount of constant static until I rmmod it. 2.4.19-pre4's
> initialization of the emu10k1 driver is fine, and when the emu10k1
> driver is replaced with the latest CVS version of the emu10k1 driver,
> it initializes and performs normally.
>
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