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Re: [RFC v2 1/2] virt: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest integration

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC v2 1/2] virt: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest integration
Date 2017-08-25 17:10 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 05:00:31PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> I've already removed all the typedefs and camel-case outside of
> include/uapi/linux
> 
> The ones in include/uapi/linux are preserved to preserve API
> compatibility with the existing VirtualBox userspace tools.

When merging new drivers we need to fix up the user abis anyway,
we don't want to be stuck with mistakes from the past.  And the
APIs look pretty bad, so there will be a lot work required after
this basic cleanup anyway.

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[RFC v2 0/2] Add Virtual Box vboxguest and vboxsf guest drivers to the mainline kernel Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - 2017-08-25 16:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC v2 1/2] virt: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest  integration Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-08-25 17:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC v2 1/2] virt: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest  integration Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - 2017-08-25 17:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC v2 1/2] virt: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest  integration Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-08-25 17:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC v2 1/2] virt: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest  integration Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-08-25 17:20 +0200
        Re: [RFC v2 1/2] virt: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest  integration Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - 2017-08-25 17:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC v2 1/2] virt: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest  integration Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-08-25 17:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC v2 1/2] virt: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest  integration Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - 2017-08-25 17:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC v2 2/2] fs: Add VirtualBox guest shared folder (vboxsf)  support Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-08-25 17:10 +0200

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