[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Use a Linux-style MAINTAINERS file

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 09.09.2010 23:18, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> I make no claims that this is accurate or exhaustive but I think it's a
> reasonable place to start.
> 
> As the file mentions, the purpose of this file is to give contributors
> information about who they can go to with questions about a particular piece of
> code or who they can ask for review.
> 
> If you sign up for a piece of code and indicate that it's Maintained or
> Supported, please be prepared to be responsive to questions about that
> subsystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 79dfc7f..3894cd8 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -9,89 +9,388 @@ to be CC'd when submitting a patch to obtain appropriate review.
>  In general, if you have a question about inclusion of a patch, you should
>  consult qemu-devel and not any specific individual privately.
>  
> -Project leaders:
> -----------------
> +Please see the MAINTAINERS file in the Linux kernel for information about how
> +to update this file.

Can't we just copy that one interesting section from Linux into this file?

> +Devices
> +-------
> +Virtio
> +M: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
> +S: Supported
> +F: hw/virtio*

Hm, what does this mean considering that we have later other entries
like hw/virtio-9p*?

> +vhost
> +M: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> +S: Supported
> +F: hw/vhost*
> +
> +virtio-9p
> +M: JV Rao <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> +S: Supported
> +F: hw/virtio-9p*
> +
> +virtio-serial
> +M: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
> +S: Supported
> +F: hw/virtio-serial*
> +F: hw/virtio-console*
> +
> +IDE
> +M: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> +S: Odd Fixes
> +F: hw/ide/
> +
> +SCSI
> +M: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
> +S: Odd Fixes
> +F: hw/lsi53c895a.c
> +F: hw/scsi*

In practice, virtio-blk, IDE and partly scsi-disk were done by me recently.

I didn't see the TCG backends in the list, are they missing?

Kevin