From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE03C0650F for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2019 07:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B102173C for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2019 07:40:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1565509210; bh=/1gjey0TqRaRx3ZGdIl2e5tjjFIwmD7J8Bw4iEC1N80=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=QWducdTao+/YuDJpuQFYGPjq70yrjPN8epGbqJCTK2EkU/fIyRyLvtjZFWy7dMpiM HU5+QOMnwSQkCKb6nTK5HEIZqcLOi0SKn69OTd+lYKfTgPLgavGHLmjwi99TRHr0Xc yGnf77ssSnDHGD8swz7PsSPzqvwPX+vKD3FTRTDo= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726296AbfHKHkJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Aug 2019 03:40:09 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:54800 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725855AbfHKHkJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Aug 2019 03:40:09 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ACA67216F4; Sun, 11 Aug 2019 07:40:07 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1565509208; bh=/1gjey0TqRaRx3ZGdIl2e5tjjFIwmD7J8Bw4iEC1N80=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=kU9dGSeSLajH1Z9LyMlIjdBTOEiiRYqEFgLn4OMt/zqu2FwiTpPV6O4v0T9Rw7EfA l6nHGmOPcXgYY5/tltQdWVbrYwdltTgRIWUgQ0l53Oq5rIGIZbOlW9CCAiC/7Sig7L zNgU50o907xl8CTkxFKQuEOK/9SPTOzSX++LBDuQ= Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:40:05 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Hans de Goede Cc: Alexander Viro , David Howells , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Merging virtualbox shared-folder VFS driver through drivers/staging? Message-ID: <20190811074005.GA4765@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org 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