On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Josh Boyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:09 AM, quickbooks office > <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
