From: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
To: quickbooks office <quickbooks.office@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>,
"Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
vbox-dev@virtualbox.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SVN] Please Merge 7 VirtualBox Kernel Modules into the Linux Kernel
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 07:38:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFLxGvx_p7NGMnRw9f-_KLF9H7jafHdP9CM7m0ADyVFWmV4oWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACtbSuTcLnkO0qM9o60nUerKGPdLUqxJxBbK2Gd0WYZtgcLMSg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:40 AM, quickbooks office
<quickbooks.office@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:09 AM, quickbooks office
>> <quickbooks.office@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Please Merge VirtualBox Kernel Modules into the Kernel.
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> svn co http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk vbox
>>> sh '/home/user/vbox/src/VBox/Additions/linux/export_modules'
>>> VBoxGuestModules.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Extracting VBoxGuestModules.tar.gz will give the Source Code for 3
>>> modules (used in a Linux Guest):
>>>
>>> 1. vboxguest (VirtualBox guest kernel module)
>>>
>>> 2. vboxsf (VirtualBox guest kernel module for shared folders)
>>>
>>> 3. vboxvideo (VirtualBox guest kernel module for drm support)
>>
>> That's not how this works. The vbox developers need to submit them as
>> patches to the appropriate maintainers and they need to go through
>> proper review. As far as I can tell, that hasn't been done because
>> they don't want to settle on a single API/ABI between the kernel and
>> userspace interfaces for vbox.
>>
>> josh
>
> Who are the appropriate maintainers for adding new (VirtualBox) kernel
> modules to the Linux kernel?
> And how would they go through proper review?
Please read:
Documentation/development-process/*
Documentation/SubmittingPatches
--
Thanks,
//richard
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-10 5:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-08 4:09 [PATCH] [SVN] Please Merge 7 VirtualBox Kernel Modules into the Linux Kernel quickbooks office
2013-05-08 15:40 ` Josh Boyer
2013-05-10 3:40 ` quickbooks office
2013-05-10 5:38 ` richard -rw- weinberger [this message]
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