[PATCH] staging: vboxvideo: Add vboxvideo to drivers/staging

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 09-06-17 11:58, Hans de Goede wrote:
> This commit adds the vboxvideo drm/kms driver for the virtual graphics
> card used in Virtual Box virtual machines to drivers/staging.
> 
> Why drivers/staging? This driver is already being patched into the kernel
> by several distros, thus it is good to get this driver upstream soon, so
> that work on the driver can be easily shared.
> 
> At the same time we want to take our time to get this driver properly
> cleaned up before submitting it as a normal driver under drivers/gpu/drm,
> putting this driver in staging for now allows both.
> 
> Note this driver has already been significantly cleaned up, when I started
> working on this the files under /usr/src/vboxguest/vboxvideo as installed
> by Virtual Box 5.1.18 Guest Additions had a total linecount of 52681
> lines. The version in this commit has 7275 lines.
> 
> Of those 7275 lines 3980 lines are in an osindependent directory which
> contains portable code which is shared with other guest platforms such as
> C-structure definitions for the virtual graphics card protocol and helper
> functions for using these structures to communicate with the card. Since
> these files are shared they are in the standard Virtual Box upstream code
> style and not in the kernel coding style. All files outside of the
> osindependent directory fully adhere to the kernel coding style.
> 
> Cc: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
> Cc: Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
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>   .config                                            |    1 +

<ugh> I just noticed that a .config changes have managed
to get added to this patch, sorry.

Greg, lt me know if you want a new version if you can fix this
up locally.

Regards,

Hans