Re: Backporting 5.6 vboxsf to Fedora 5.5 kernels ?

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On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 14:04 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2/20/20 1:47 PM, Justin Forbes wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:34 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto: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.
> 
> Great, thank you. I've pushed the necessary changes to the f31
> branch,
> so that they can be picked up with the next build.

Cool , Thanks .

I will take care of virtualbox-guest-additions package which finally
will work OOTB :) 

Best regards,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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