On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:40 AM, quickbooks office <quickbooks.off...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Josh Boyer <jwbo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:09 AM, quickbooks office >> <quickbooks.off...@gmail.com> 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?
Please read: Documentation/development-process/* Documentation/SubmittingPatches -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
