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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Aug 25 2017 - 11:09:30 EST


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.