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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 05:06:52PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> I'm afraid that the userspace API is more or less a take it
> or leave it kinda deal, we can do small cleanups, but an
> entire re-design is out of the question. The vboxguest code
> has a long (too long) out of tree history and the same ioctl
> interface is used by VirtualBox upstream on Windows, Mac OS X,
> the BSDs and Solaris, so we cannot just go and break it to
> out hart's content.

Then hard out NAK for the code.

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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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