Backporting vmmouse kernel support to Fedora-22 kernel ?

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Wed May 27 14:45:57 UTC 2015


Hi,

On 27-05-15 15:59, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> See above, I think that if I push out xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse 3.0.99 as
>>>>> a F-22 update, and you add a Conflicts for older versions to the kernel
>>>>> spec that we are then good to go.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Josh, how are we going to move forward with this?
>>>>
>>>> As said I believe that for F-22 we want to backport the vmmouse driver
>>>> post GA, and we can best solve the issue of the vmmouse kernel vs
>>>> userspace driver with a Conflicts on the older version of the userspace
>>>> driver, does that sound like a plan?
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm going to enable it in rawhide today with the Conflicts in place.
>>> Assuming people don't come to my door with pitchforks because their
>>> VMWare guests don't work, I'll look at getting it into the F22 kernel
>>> later this week.
>>
>>
>> That is great, thanks!
>
> I just pushed this to F22 git.  It will be in the next F22 kernel build.

Great, thanks you for doing this.

Regards,

Hans


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