[ltp] How does /proc/acpi/ibm/bay work

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:13:02 +0200


On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 17:57:33 +0100, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> Brad Langhorst wrote:
> >On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 18:21 +0100, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> >
> >>Nils wrote:
> >>
> >>>This is really interesting, which kernel version do you use ?
> >>
> >>2.6.10, self-compiled. (The VMWare modules don't compile under 2.6.11.x.)
> >
> >sure it does...
> >i just did it on 2.6.11.6
> >i do have the vmware-any-any patch applied though.
> 
> Which patch is this? And what purpose does it serve?

It's not really a patch. It's just some replacement tarballs with
sources for the kernel modules (vmmon, vmnet) which will compile with
2.6.11, and an install script. Very easy to use.

The most recent version can be downloaded here:

http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update89.tar.gz

Regards,
Tino