Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753213Ab3EJDkw (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 May 2013 23:40:52 -0400 Received: from mail-vb0-f48.google.com ([209.85.212.48]:58553 "EHLO mail-vb0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751198Ab3EJDkv (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 May 2013 23:40:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 20:40:50 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SVN] Please Merge 7 VirtualBox Kernel Modules into the Linux Kernel From: quickbooks office To: Josh Boyer 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: 1509 Lines: 38 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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 Who are the appropriate maintainers for adding new (VirtualBox) kernel modules to the Linux kernel? And how would they go through proper review? Thanks. -- 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/