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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:49:05 +0100
From: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert@...cle.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andy Hall <andy.hall@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.
> I actually have and had a rough patch that added the code to staging
> directory in the kernel tree.
>
> Admittedly I don't remember anything about the code but surely it
> meets the standards of what we already have there? :-)
unless upstream commits to some sort of stable ABI policy there is no
point, you'd just have to ship a module that somehow magically exposes
different probably incompatible interfaces depending on what userspace
was running on it.
Dave.
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