linux-kernel - Re: Variant symlink filesystem

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Message-ID: <56E2F5F0.7040606@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:44:32 -0500
From:	"Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@...il.com>
To:	Cole <cole@...eqint.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Variant symlink filesystem

On 2016-03-11 11:20, Cole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have written a Variant Symlink Filesystem for linux, currently
> implemented as a kernel module:
> https://github.com/onslauth/varsymfs
> The code was written for the 3.x kernel.
>
> I would like to try to get this included into the linux kernel, and am
> willing to hand over all copyright and change the license as needed.
> As such, I would like to know what I can do to try to make this
> happen.
The first two steps for this to happen are making sure it works on newer 
kernels (I haven't looked in-depth at your code, but there are not 
likely to be many changes needed to get it working on 4.4.x assuming you 
have it working already on late 3.x cycle kernels), and then get it 
converted to an in-tree module (this also shouldn't be too difficult 
either, once you figure out which tree to base it on and where to put it 
in the source tree).

Once you get to that point, read through Documentation/SubmittingPatches 
and follow the steps there.  Aside from what's there, you'll probably 
want to include a couple of well described test cases.