Backporting vmmouse kernel support to Fedora-22 kernel ?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 27 13:59:39 UTC 2015


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.

josh


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