On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi All,
Good news, the vboxguest driver has been queued for
upstream merging in char-misc-next. This just happened
so I want to wait for a couple of days to make sure
they stick and they do not get reverted for some reason.
Nice job! That's been needed a long time and I'm really happy to see
your success in getting them upstream.
Then I would like to add them as downstream patches
to the rawhide kernels for now, they can be dropped
once we rebase to 4.16.
So as always when making non trivial changes, my
question to the Fedora kernel team is, is adding
these as downstream patches ok?
I have no strong opinion, but I'm curious why we wouldn't just wait
for 4.16. That seems like a natural sync point so that everyone that
provides this driver as a kmod simply stops when the first 4.16 merge
window kernel lands. Adding them now means more coordination for
users and kmod builders and I wonder if that will cause confusion.
josh