VMware drivers maintainers

Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom at vmware.com
Wed Aug 18 05:09:42 PDT 2010


On 08/18/2010 02:00 PM, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:48 +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
>> I've updated the maintainer contact info and patch- and release policies
>> for the VMware drivers:
>>
>>
> Excellent. thanks.
>
> About vmwarectrl directory in video vmware. It's not reachable during 
> the package build, so unless system builders do something to correct 
> to situation, it would not be used. It seems to be a very old program 
> that is just stored there.
>
> If it is required, I can fix the configuration such that it builds 
> with the driver. A few drivers have  a tool of some sort that builds 
> along with it. 

Thanks, Gaetan,

It appears that the vmwarectrl program has its own configure.ac script, 
so it won't be compiled unless explicitly configured and build in that 
directory.

I'll have a check with some inhouse people to see whether we want to 
change that so that it builds by default.

/Thomas

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