vmware on linux 2.6.4

[Måns Rullgård]

I tried to build the vmware modules for kernel 2.6.4 and got this oops
when loading vmmon.o:

vmmon: no version magic, tainting kernel.
vmmon: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000006e
 printing eip:
c020160f
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT 
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c020160f>]    Tainted: PF 
EFLAGS: 00010206
EIP is at vsnprintf+0x43/0x4b9
eax: c6f11c53   ebx: c6f11c00   ecx: 0000006e   edx: 0000006e
esi: c6f11c54   edi: c6f11c0c   ebp: c6f11c67   esp: d2b61ee8
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process insmod (pid: 23426, threadinfo=d2b60000 task=d0f52720)
Stack: e89fe000 c0101e8c 00000202 c01468d5 00000202 c0338394 00000286 d2b61f38 
       00000014 c6f11c54 0000006e c6f11c00 fffffff4 c6f11c0c c162d180 c023c3e9 
       d2b61f54 00000000 6f6d6d76 e8a2dd90 6fed6d76 c036ae08 c022fb77 c162d180 
Call Trace:
 [<c01468d5>] unmap_vm_area+0x27/0x67
 [<c023c3e9>] class_simple_device_add+0xa9/0xff
 [<c022fb77>] misc_register+0xb2/0x186
 [<e8a1a1d0>] init_module+0x144/0x1e8 [vmmon]
 [<c013126e>] sys_init_module+0x105/0x211
 [<c0108ffd>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71

Code: 80 3a 00 74 25 0f b6 02 3c 25 74 41 39 ee 77 06 88 06 8b 54 
 <4>vmmon: no version magic, tainting kernel.

Suggestions welcome.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxx
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