Hi,
On 28-01-2020 18:53, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-11-13 at 08:44 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 13-11-2019 03:08, Justin Forbes wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:44 PM Jeremy Cline <
> > > jeremy(a)jcline.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:57:35AM +0000, Peter Robinson
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:40 AM Hans de Goede <
> > > > > hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So vboxsf has finally landed upstream. I gave up getting
> > > > > > it
> > > > > > merged
> > > > > > directly under fs/vboxsf since despite some fs-devel
> > > > > > folks
> > > > > > saying
> > > > > > that it was as good as it is going to get (given the
> > > > > > limitations
> > > > > > of the API exposed by the host) it seems that the fs
> > > > > > subsys
> > > > > > maintainers
> > > > > > did not have the time to take a look at it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So I've send it to GKH for merging under
drivers/staging
> > > > > > instead
> > > > > > and somewhat to my surprise (not complaining) he send it
> > > > > > in
> > > > > > for
> > > > > > this cycle.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Since this upstream now; and despite being in staging has
> > > > > > alread seen
> > > > > > multiple reviews, I would like to get this enabled for
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > Fedora 5.4
> > > > > > kernels so that shared-folders will just work for users
> > > > > > running Fedora
> > > > > > as a VirtualBox guest.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So unless there are any objections I'm going to flip
the
> > > > > > configs/fedora/generic/CONFIG_VBOXSF_FS file to m and
> > > > > > enable
> > > > > > this in rawhide
> > > > > > soon.
> > > > >
> > > > > Apart from the fact it's already been enabled by Jeremy? :-
> > > > > P
> > > > >
> > > > >
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/c/2147ca93975deaf220619e9096e0b...
> > > >
> > > > I guess you can put me in the "no objections" camp.
> > >
> > > Well, it was fun while it lasted. It was just pulled by Linus.
> > > I am
> > > guessing 5.5 now.
> >
> > Yes I was about to say the same thing... <sigh>
>
> Any news ? is for 5.5 ? or not ?
It has been excepted directly under fs/vboxsf by Al Viro now and it
is in -next
as such, see e.g.:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/f...
It is not entirely clear to me if it will make it into 5.6 or if this
is
5.7 stuff, definitely not 5.5.
But since this is completely isolated code, we can easily drop it
into
the Fedora 5.5 kernels once it is upstream, assuming it makes 5.6-rc1
and assuming that the Fedora kernel maintainers are ok with carying
at
as a (single patch) downstream patch for 1 kernel cycle.
I'm not sure which kernel Fedora 32 will target, assuming it will
target
5.6 (which seems likely) then for the OOTB livecd experience there is
little to gain from adding the patch to the Fedora 5.5 kernels, OTOH
for people installing F31, this will enable shared folder
functionality
by just doing a "dnf update" which would be nice.
Sérgio, do you have a preference whether we should backport to 5.5 or
not ?
Regards,
Hans
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