added comments for 279 and fixed up some comments for 271 patches

Package-Manager: portage-2.2.8-r2

11 files changed, 36 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.10-06-inode.patch b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.10-06-inode.patch
index 4f6246d..01c8893 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.10-06-inode.patch
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.10-06-inode.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 starting with kernel 3.6, d_revalidate takes an unsigned int "flags"
 as the second argument, not a nameidata pointer! see fs/namei.c 
-for implementation
+for implementation. Also changing vfs_follow_link to nd_set_link.
+See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/9/236
 
 diff -Naur vmblock-only/linux/inode.c vmblock-only/linux/inode.c
 --- vmblock-only/linux/inode.c	2013-11-05 23:33:26.000000000 -0500
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.13-00-vmnet.patch b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.13-00-vmnet.patch
index f65284f..1bf2207 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.13-00-vmnet.patch
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.13-00-vmnet.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-The new API to get the hooknum
+the new API to get the hooknum
 origionally from http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-979802-start-25.html
 
 --- work/vmnet-only/filter.c   2013-08-27 20:29:04.000000000 +0100
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.15-00-readlink.patch b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.15-00-readlink.patch
index b1c7f24..b8ee078 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.15-00-readlink.patch
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/271-3.15-00-readlink.patch
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 replacing usage of vfs_readlink with new readlink_copy API
+see: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/445090
 
 diff -rupN vmblock-only/linux/inode.c vmblock-only/linux/inode.c
 --- vmblock-only/linux/inode.c	2014-10-05 23:20:14.545218357 -0400
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-00-userns.patch b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-00-userns.patch
index c960b78..b1b78b7 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-00-userns.patch
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-00-userns.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+correctly initializes UID/GID values
+gets UID correctly in light of user namespace API
+origionally from https://462666.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=342888
+
 --- a/vmblock-only/linux/inode.c   2013-03-20 17:37:48.000000000 +0100
 +++ b/vmblock-only/linux/inode.c   2013-03-20 17:41:22.000000000 +0100
 @@ -135,7 +135,8 @@
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-01-getname.patch b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-01-getname.patch
index 7bcf536..05ed8db 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-01-getname.patch
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-01-getname.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+uses __getname/__putname instead of getname. getname was deprecated
+the new code calls __getname (which really is a specific type of 
+memory allocator, then copies the string safely from user space
+into the allocated buffer
+
 --- vmblock-only/linux/control.c	2014-03-15 15:28:40.871076076 +0100
 +++ vmblock-only/linux/control.c.new	2014-03-15 15:29:15.079074439 +0100
 @@ -279,11 +279,17 @@
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-03-deprecated.patch b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-03-deprecated.patch
index 0cd1a16..98b28aa 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-03-deprecated.patch
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-03-deprecated.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+undefines DEPRECATED which is unfortunately also defined (as a string)
+in <linux/printk.h>. Realistically, this macro isn't even used, so this
+doesn't matter much. But it hushes some very loud warnings.
+
 diff -rupN vmblock-only/shared/vm_assert.h vmblock-only.new/shared/vm_assert.h
 --- vmblock-only/shared/vm_assert.h	2014-04-14 17:41:41.000000000 -0400
 +++ vmblock-only.new/shared/vm_assert.h	2014-10-11 17:37:23.010352172 -0400
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-04-dentry.patch b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-04-dentry.patch
index 8acecf5..f4f59d9 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-04-dentry.patch
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-04-dentry.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+starting with kernel 3.6, d_revalidate takes an unsigned int "flags"
+as the second argument, not a nameidata pointer! see fs/namei.c 
+for implementation
+
 diff -Naur vmblock-only/linux/dentry.c vmblock-only/linux/dentry.c
 --- vmblock-only/linux/dentry.c	2013-11-05 23:33:26.000000000 -0500
 +++ vmblock-only/linux/dentry.c	2014-04-26 10:58:03.062635343 -0400
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-05-inode.patch b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-05-inode.patch
index 0d30dbe..01c8893 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-05-inode.patch
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.10-05-inode.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+starting with kernel 3.6, d_revalidate takes an unsigned int "flags"
+as the second argument, not a nameidata pointer! see fs/namei.c 
+for implementation. Also changing vfs_follow_link to nd_set_link.
+See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/9/236
+
 diff -Naur vmblock-only/linux/inode.c vmblock-only/linux/inode.c
 --- vmblock-only/linux/inode.c	2013-11-05 23:33:26.000000000 -0500
 +++ vmblock-only/linux/inode.c	2014-04-26 10:58:03.063635343 -0400
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.15-00-readlink.patch b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.15-00-readlink.patch
index 36be37f..b8ee078 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.15-00-readlink.patch
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.15-00-readlink.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+replacing usage of vfs_readlink with new readlink_copy API
+see: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/445090
+
 diff -rupN vmblock-only/linux/inode.c vmblock-only/linux/inode.c
 --- vmblock-only/linux/inode.c	2014-10-05 23:20:14.545218357 -0400
 +++ vmblock-only/linux/inode.c	2014-10-05 23:33:01.549259933 -0400
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.15-01-vsock.patch b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.15-01-vsock.patch
index a880a75..9e8d9d1 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.15-01-vsock.patch
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.15-01-vsock.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+removing the no longer existing second parameter to sk_data_ready
+doesn't seem it ever served a purpose.
+
 diff -rupN vsock-only/linux/notify.c vsock-only.new/linux/notify.c
 --- vsock-only/linux/notify.c	2013-11-05 23:33:27.000000000 -0500
 +++ vsock-only.new/linux/notify.c	2014-10-05 23:46:47.943304728 -0400
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.17-00-netdev.patch b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.17-00-netdev.patch
index fbe1741..7c52455 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.17-00-netdev.patch
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-modules/files/279-3.17-00-netdev.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+new alloc_netdev requires a new parameter. All examples in the kernel i've seen just
+use the constant NET_NAME_UNKNOWN.
+origionally from: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2425189
+
 diff -rupN vmnet-only/netif.c vmnet-only.new/netif.c
 --- vmnet-only/netif.c	2013-11-06 00:40:52.000000000 -0500
 +++ vmnet-only.new/netif.c	2014-10-09 17:29:12.361307961 -0400