From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merging virtualbox shared-folder VFS driver through drivers/staging?
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:40:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190811074005.GA4765@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2a9c3c0-62da-0d70-4062-47d00ab530e0@redhat.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-11 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-10 22:25 Merging virtualbox shared-folder VFS driver through drivers/staging? Hans de Goede
2019-08-11 0:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-08-11 13:36 ` Hans de Goede
2019-08-11 7:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-08-11 7:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-11 7:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-11 13:43 ` Hans de Goede
2019-08-11 13:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-12 11:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-12 13:44 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-11 9:00 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 15:05 ` Hans de Goede
2019-08-30 16:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
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