On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 12:25:03AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi Al, > > I've been trying to get the vboxsf fs code upstream for 1.5 years now, > it seems (to me) that the main problem is that no-one has time to > review it. You're reviewed it a couple of times and David Howells > has reviewed it 2 times. Al reviews have lead to various improvments > and have definitely been useful, so thank you for that. > > But ATM, since posting v12 of the patch, it has again been quiet for > 2 months again. Since this driver is already being used as addon / > our of tree driver by various distros, I would really like to get it > into mainline, to make live easier for distros and to make sure that > they use the latest version. > > Since I do not see the lack of reviewing capacity problem get solved > anytime soon, I was wondering if you are ok with putting the code > in drivers/staging/vboxsf for now, until someone can review it and ack it > for moving over to sf/vboxsf ? I have no objection to that if the vfs developers do not mind. thanks, greg k-h
