Re: MAINTAINERS: take over vboxsf from Hans de Goede

[Jori Koolstra]

> Op 14-06-2026 22:19 CEST schreef Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>  
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 09:11:45PM +0200, Jori Koolstra wrote:
> > > Op 14-06-2026 21:10 CEST schreef Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > I have no major plans for vboxsf, but I do want to support passing
> > > physical addresses to the host; the communication protocol seems to
> > > allow for it and it would mean we can get rid of some kmap calls.
> 
> I would love that.  I looked at doing it when I did e300830fcc40
> (convert to writepages), but it was a little beyond me.  I really didn't
> want to try to do it without having a way to test it.

I have a Windows and Linux box with VBox installed, and I have created a
simple Alpine bootstrapper on which to run basic tests within VBox. I use
the vboxsf to move the host compiled modules to the guest (the driver and
vboxsf itself). I still have to think a bit if there is any reasonable
automated way to run tests on the guest side. xfstests probably aren't 
very suitable here, because we don't control how VBox itself responds to
incoming requests. But maybe it has some sub-collection that will run. I
have to look into that.

> 
> Any chance you could also add large folio support?  I don't think it
> should be much extra work once you've done physical address support.

Yes, I'll look into that as well. If I have any memory related questions
can I ask you?

Thanks!
Jori.