Re: Enabling vboxsf in Fedora 5.4+ kernels

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On Wed, 2019-11-13 at 08:44 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 13-11-2019 03:08, Justin Forbes wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:44 PM Jeremy Cline <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:57:35AM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:40 AM Hans de Goede <
> > > > hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > 
> > > > > So vboxsf has finally landed upstream. I gave up getting it
> > > > > merged
> > > > > directly under fs/vboxsf since despite some fs-devel folks
> > > > > saying
> > > > > that it was as good as it is going to get (given the
> > > > > limitations
> > > > > of the API exposed by the host) it seems that the fs subsys
> > > > > maintainers
> > > > > did not have the time to take a look at it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > So I've send it to GKH for merging under drivers/staging
> > > > > instead
> > > > > and somewhat to my surprise (not complaining) he send it in
> > > > > for
> > > > > this cycle.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Since this upstream now; and despite being in staging has
> > > > > alread seen
> > > > > multiple reviews, I would like to get this enabled for the
> > > > > Fedora 5.4
> > > > > kernels so that shared-folders will just work for users
> > > > > running Fedora
> > > > > as a VirtualBox guest.
> > > > > 
> > > > > So unless there are any objections I'm going to flip the
> > > > > configs/fedora/generic/CONFIG_VBOXSF_FS file to m and enable
> > > > > this in rawhide
> > > > > soon.
> > > > 
> > > > Apart from the fact it's already been enabled by Jeremy? :-P
> > > > 
> > > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/c/2147ca93975deaf220619e9096e0b84d879febc9?branch=master
> > > 
> > > I guess you can put me in the "no objections" camp.
> > 
> > Well, it was fun while it lasted. It was just pulled by Linus. I am
> > guessing 5.5 now.
> 
> Yes I was about to say the same thing... <sigh>


Any news ? is for 5.5 ? or not ? 


Thanks 


> I'm afraid that it seems that the fs subsystem processes are somewhat
> dysfunctional atm, which is why I went with staging. Maybe I can get
> it in fs proper for 5.5, we will see.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
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