[Bug 294341] Review Request: open-vm-tools-kmods - Kernel modules for open-vm-tools

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Summary: Review Request: open-vm-tools-kmods - Kernel modules for open-vm-tools


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341


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------- Additional Comments From adar at vmware.com  2007-09-24 21:37 EST -------
(In reply to comment #32)
> Looks like the vmblock filesystem-lookalike actually is used to implement
> cut&paste in some odd way.  Not much of a chance there, sorry.

Yeah, it's used to handle both copy/paste and DnD. See
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=46E6FDEC.3090700%40codemonkey.ws.

Christoph, since we do want to upstream our kernel modules, could you give us an
idea of what needs to change? Obviously we have to adapt the modules to the
kernel coding style and cut out the older kernel compatibility code, but what
else needs to be reimplemented or redesigned?

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