Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755711Ab3EHPk4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 May 2013 11:40:56 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f176.google.com ([209.85.214.176]:38356 "EHLO mail-ob0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753444Ab3EHPkz (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 May 2013 11:40:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 11:40:54 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SVN] Please Merge 7 VirtualBox Kernel Modules into the Linux Kernel From: Josh Boyer To: quickbooks office Cc: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , Linus Torvalds , vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1250 Lines: 31 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:09 AM, quickbooks office 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/