On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working on cleaning up the vboxguest drivers so that they > can be added to the mainline kernel for: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/VirtualBox_Guest_Integration > > The vboxvideo driver is already upstream, atm it is in staging > because it still needs to be ported to the new atomic-kms APIs > but otherwise it is in very good state and not really of staging > quality (I've already done a lot of cleanup reducing it from > 52681 in its original form to 7275 lines in staging). > > Some people have expressed concerns about my plans to _temporarily_ > carry patches for the vboxguest integration in the Fedora kernel pkg. > > I can understand that you are reluctant to carry patches which > need to be maintained for ever and ever, but that is not the case > here. > There is no question that you can clean up the drivers in a way that the code is sane. My issue is that there have been numerous attempts to upstream vbox over the years. All unsuccessful. It isn't a lack of faith in your abilities, but a question of how the larger community upstream accepts these. > So I'm hereby asking the Fedora kernel-team for permission to add > these 2 drivers as patches to the Fedora kernel for a kernel-release > or 2 while I finish pushing them upstream. > > I would at least like to see the initial reaction the upstream posting before agreeing to this. There is plenty of time before Fedora 27 ships. Justin _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
