Re: [PATCH] vhost-user: add dedicated mailing list

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 05:58:35PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 06:24:40PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> > 
> > During the "Virtio and Vhost-User Ecosystem for Production and
> > Automotive Systems" BoF at LPC 2026 [1] we discussed and agreed on
> > creating a new vhost-user mailing list, mainly for changes to the
> > specification and discussions around the protocol.
> 
> You say the list is for discussions around the spec / protocol, but...
> 
> > The main reason is that the vhost-user specification is also used
> > by other VMMs and implemented by several back-ends outside the QEMU
> > repository, whose developers often do not follow qemu-devel.
> > 
> > Add a paragraph in the specification about the new mailing list and
> > a dedicated MAINTAINERS entry for the vhost-user protocol, covering
> > the specification, the QEMU front-end and libvhost-user (back-end
> > library).
> 
> ...this MAINTAINERS addition means the mailing list will be CC'd
> on all code patches sent to QEMU for those file patterns. Are you
> sure that's content that members of the list want to be sent
> unconditionally ?
> 
> 

Good point. Let's make it a separate section?

> > 
> > [1] https://lpc.events/event/20/contributions/2365/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS                 | 12 ++++++++++--
> >  docs/interop/vhost-user.rst |  6 ++++++
> >  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index d9209f043f..dcdb65d8cb 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -2532,19 +2532,27 @@ M: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> >  R: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> >  S: Supported
> >  F: hw/*/*vhost*
> > -F: docs/interop/vhost-user*
> >  F: docs/system/devices/virtio/vhost-user*
> >  F: contrib/vhost-user-*/
> >  F: backends/*vhost*
> >  F: include/system/vhost-user-backend.h
> >  F: include/hw/virtio/vhost*
> >  F: include/*/vhost*
> > -F: subprojects/libvhost-user/
> >  F: block/export/vhost-user*
> >  F: util/vhost-user-server.c
> >  F: net/vhost*
> >  F: tests/functional/x86_64/test_vhost_user_bridge.py
> >  
> > +vhost-user protocol
> > +M: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > +R: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> > +L: vhost-user@lists.linux.dev
> > +S: Supported
> > +F: docs/interop/vhost-user*
> > +F: hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
> > +F: include/hw/virtio/vhost-user.h
> > +F: subprojects/libvhost-user/
> > +
> >  vhost-shadow-virtqueue
> >  R: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
> >  F: hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.*
> > diff --git a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
> > index c1e02ff7e9..198ad30f5c 100644
> > --- a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
> > +++ b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
> > @@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ conventions <backend_conventions>`.
> >  The *front-end* and *back-end* can be either a client (i.e. connecting) or
> >  server (listening) in the socket communication.
> >  
> > +The protocol is developed and discussed on the `vhost-user mailing list
> > +<mailto:vhost-user@lists.linux.dev>`_, archived at
> > +https://lore.kernel.org/vhost-user/. Until October 2026, when this list
> > +was created, discussions took place on the qemu-devel mailing list,
> > +archived at https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/.
> > +
> >  Support for platforms other than Linux
> >  --------------------------------------
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.56.0
> > 
> > 
> 
> With regards,
> Daniel
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