13.06.2017 14:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: [Discussion of vboxvideo coding style.] > Once your code is accepted into the main kernel tree, why would you > continue to work in an out-of-tree repo anyway? That's ripe for > disaster, what's keeping you from just working with the in-tree version? One of our use cases is customers running older operating systems, including legacy Linux distributions. However those customers would still like the most up-to-date guest drivers possible without updating the kernel. Updating drivers without updating the kernel is not a scenario of interest to upstream kernel developers, which is why we will continue to maintain the out-of-tree repository (which is actually the VirtualBox repository, where the OS-independent code is shared with drivers for other platforms). The end result is not unlike what Red Hat does when it does back-ports to its stable kernels. Regards Michael [...] -- Michael Thayer | VirtualBox engineer ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | D-71384 Weinstadt ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Nederland, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Jan Schultheiss, Val Maher _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
