VMware patches for Ubuntu

[Alok Kataria]

On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 13:33 -0800, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Alok Kataria wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 12:15 -0800, Tim Gardner wrote:
> >> Alok Kataria wrote:
> >>> Thats cool, so that would mean you can easily cherry pick these patches
> >>> for the intrepid tree. Can you let me know for which release can we
> >>> expect to see these patches.
> >>>
> >> If I don't run into issues with Intrepid, then these patches could end
> >> up in -proposed within the next week or two. 
> > 
> > Great, let me know how it goes. Also once the patches get into proposed
> > tree i can then have a kernel built off that tree for my internal
> > testing.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Alok
> > 
> 
> I think I'll wait until I see what you come up with for the 2.6.24
> backported patches. For 2.6.27 the first commit
> b2bcc7b299f37037b4a78dc1538e5d6508ae8110 wants to patch a non-existing
> file arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h, so I guess its already off into
> the weeds.

Ah...yes all these are failing because the x86 architecture specific
header files were moved into arch/x86/include...,in 2.6.28-rc1.

That means i will have to backport these for intrepid too, let me do
that too then.

Thanks,
Alok
> 
> rtg