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.
Michal Kubecek