Hi community members,

Last week I upgraded my Linux kernel from 2.6.39 to 3.0.0. This of course

impled that I had to recompile the VMware modules. Compilation, however,
failed with the following error message:

    Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
     make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only'
     make -C /lib/modules/3.0.0-1-686-pae/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD
     SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
               MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
     make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.0.0-1-686-pae'
       CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
     /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:783:59: error:
     'SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED' undeclared here (not in a function)        
     make[4]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
     make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only] Error 2      
     make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2                                  
     make[1]: *** [all] Error 2    
     make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.0.0-1-686-pae'
     make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2                                      
     make:uname -a
    Linux transfix.oostum.north 3.0.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Sat Aug 27 16:41:03 UTC
    2011 i686 GNU/Linux Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only'

I couldn't find hints on either google, the community forums or the knowledge
base. I tried to build the modules on another Debian Linux system running the
3.0.0 kernel, but there compilation failed as well. Compilation on my previous
kernel (2.6.39) went flawlessly.

Is there anything I overlooked? Did I miss something? Maybe you guys have
a suggestion about how to proceed? Of course I can always boot the previous kernel,

but that shouldn't be necessary, I'd think.