[PATCH] [SVN] Please Merge 7 VirtualBox Kernel Modules into the Linux Kernel
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) --- sh '/home/user/vbox/src/VBox/HostDrivers/linux/export_modules' VBoxHostModules.tar.gz Extracting VBoxHostModules.tar.gz will give the Source Code for 4 modules (used in a Linux Host): 1. vboxdrv (VirtualBox host kernel module) 2. vboxnetflt (VirtualBox netfilter kernel module) 3. vboxnetadp (VirtualBox network adapter kernel module) 4. vboxpci (VirtualBox host PCI access kernel module) --- Maintaner contacts: 1. vbox-dev Mailing List: https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev (Probably Requires you to join the mailing list in order to post) - vbox-...@virtualbox.org or 2. Public bugtracker: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker (Requires an Oracle account for sign on) -- 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/
Re: [PATCH] [SVN] Please Merge 7 VirtualBox Kernel Modules into the Linux Kernel
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 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/
