linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 1/2] virt: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest integration

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Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:09:16 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Michael Thayer <michael.thayer@...cle.com>,
        "Knut St . Osmundsen" <knut.osmundsen@...cle.com>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/2] virt: Add vboxguest driver for Virtual Box Guest
 integration

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 05:06:52PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> I'm afraid that the userspace API is more or less a take it
> or leave it kinda deal, we can do small cleanups, but an
> entire re-design is out of the question. The vboxguest code
> has a long (too long) out of tree history and the same ioctl
> interface is used by VirtualBox upstream on Windows, Mac OS X,
> the BSDs and Solaris, so we cannot just go and break it to
> out hart's content.

Then hard out NAK for the code.