Re: Backporting 5.6 vboxsf to Fedora 5.5 kernels ?

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:34 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Fedora kernel-team,
>
> The vboxsf file-system driver for accessing folders shared by a vbox host
> from a (Fedora) guest
> has finally been merged upstream in 5.6-rc1.
>
> I've discussed how to move forward with this with Sergio (in the Cc)
> who currently maintains a kmod for this in rpmfusion.
>
> Sergio's preference is to switch to the in tree version ASAP.
>
> As such I would like to backport the 5.6 patch to 5.5 and at it to
> the stabilization branch, if this is ok with you ?
>
> This will be a single patch adding a new fs/vboxsf directory
> and a single new Kconfig option, the fs-driver is fully self
> contained and this patch can be dropped when we switch to the 5.6
> kernels.
>
> I am okay with this, though 5.5 is on F31 now, so you can skip
stabilization.  Thanks for coordinating with Sergio.

Justin
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