Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness

From: Timothy Miller
Date: Wed Jun 23 2004 - 09:46:53 EST




Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-22 18:32:15 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message <20040622173215.GA6300@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:12:36PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

Just merge the vmware modules upstream. Then, such breakage will be
detected early and probably fixed without putting a lot of work into it
(from your point of view).

a) vmware modules themselves aren't under a free license


That can be changed.


Whatever it is that VMware needs in the kernel can probably be generalized in some way that makes it useful to other things (like Win4Lin) and then merged into mainline.

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