Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Mon Oct 10 2011 - 12:52:09 EST


Hi Dave,

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.

Absolutely. No disagreement here.

Pekka
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