For quite long, VMware Workstation and Player have been distributed with
identical host module source. Therefore it seems unnecessary to maintain
two sets of branches and tags and 17.0.0 release is a nice opportunity to
discontinue "player-*" branches and "p*" tags. To reduce the mess, those
will be preserved and created for pre-17 products but no new Player related
branches and tags will be created for versions 17.x and newer unless the
module sources diverge in the future.
Update the README and INSTALL files to reflect this change and replace
14.1.1 version with 17.0.0 in examples.
The per kernel tags of the form [wp]${ver}-${kver} turned out to do more
harm than good as they confused many users of the repository and led them
to build modules from old snapshots, resulting in a lot of invalid bug
reports. Therefore they will no longer be provided for kernel >= 6.0.
Update README to reflect this change.
Makefiles in *-only copy the object file module is created from into the
parent directory but do not delete them on "make clean". Clean these files
up in "clean" target of top level makefile.
Add a top level makefile to make common tasks easier. Supported targets:
make - build modules
make install - install modules (honors DESTDIR)
make clean - clean up
make tarballs - create source tarballs from current HEAD
Note: "make tarballs" uses "git archive" so that it only works in a local
copy of the git repository, not in a directory created by unpacking
a tarball.
Add *.tar to .gitignore to hide tarballs created by "make tarballs".
Michal Kubecek