On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Josh Boyer jwboyer@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Hans de Goede hdegoede@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.
Also worth noting, 4.16 will be the Fedora 28 release kernel, so it will
make F28 either way.
Justin