Fixing vmware-tools vmhgfs on newer Linux kernels (probably anything >= 2.6.36)

If you’re trying to install vmware-tools inside a linux guest and get the dreaded
super.c:73: error: unknown field ‘clear_inode’ specified in initializer
error while compiling vmhgfs for shared folder support (which I use a lot), this will help (thanks to Anjo from German VMWare Forums):

• unpack /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source/vmhgfs.tar to somewhere
• open vmhgfs-only/super.c in your favorite text editor
• edit from

  #ifndef VMW_USE_IGET_LOCKED
   .read_inode       = HgfsReadInode,
   #endif
   .clear_inode      = HgfsClearInode,
   .put_super        = HgfsPutSuper,
   .statfs              = HgfsStatfs,
   };
  

  to (note .clear_inode -> .evict_inode)

  #ifndef VMW_USE_IGET_LOCKED
     .read_inode    = HgfsReadInode,
  #endif
     .evict_inode   = HgfsClearInode,
     .put_super     = HgfsPutSuper,
     .statfs           = HgfsStatfs,
  };
  

• repack vmhgfs.tar including edited super.c
• execute vmware-config-tools.pl
• profit