Hi, On 09-08-17 22:14, Justin Forbes wrote:
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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 <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.
Ok fair enough.
There is plenty of time before Fedora 27 ships.
Beta-freeze is quite soon (slightly less then a month from now) and it would be nice to have some testing outside of my little sandbox before then. But yes we still have some time. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
