From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists1p.gnu.org (lists1p.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8E1FCD3436 for ; Fri, 8 May 2026 15:06:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists1p.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1wLMlW-0000aR-92; Fri, 08 May 2026 11:05:22 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists1p.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1wLMlV-0000aG-M0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2026 11:05:21 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.133.124]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1wLMlT-0007ZM-TY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2026 11:05:21 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1778252719; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=3OoFnjAHhowIO6m6LzIzKL+ZWdYdORr4ETUx9xbtF6I=; b=RGXuw27d4XZ9fg8ttfztgzChPW6t0XiFsQJkoc+Az79qQYJhdtt4uX8sl5zNPmtt33Ig/D hiBF7zLhB0Huo1SKybw/1Pf61R7rCReRInGSPu5wz42vGfmjEUyc4bg/lJaEtYlh5MvS0c /2iUqlFj0DTlaxP6U55MskpfHH4uAZQ= Received: from mx-prod-mc-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-250-MSBgGx2lOsCmfx2j_t0TaA-1; Fri, 08 May 2026 11:05:14 -0400 X-MC-Unique: MSBgGx2lOsCmfx2j_t0TaA-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: MSBgGx2lOsCmfx2j_t0TaA_1778252707 Received: from mx-prod-int-08.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-08.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.111]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDE7819560B8; Fri, 8 May 2026 15:05:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from redhat.com (unknown [10.44.32.204]) by mx-prod-int-08.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38D211803A8E; Fri, 8 May 2026 15:05:03 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 16:05:00 +0100 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= To: Peter Maydell Cc: John Levon , Jag Raman , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Elena Ufimtseva , "clg@redhat.com" , Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark Multi-Process QEMU as Orphaned Message-ID: References: <20260508102657.644247-1-john.levon@nutanix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/2.3.1 (2026-03-20) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.30.177.111 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.133.124; envelope-from=berrange@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: 8 X-Spam_score: 0.8 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.44, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS=3.335, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: qemu development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 03:39:35PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 2026 at 15:29, John Levon wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 02:21:37PM +0000, Jag Raman wrote: > > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > > index 0a90204ae9..ce2b494086 100644 > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > > @@ -4429,7 +4429,7 @@ F: tests/tcg/aarch64/system/semiheap.c > > > Multi-process QEMU > > > M: Elena Ufimtseva > > > M: Jagannathan Raman > > > -S: Maintained > > > +S: Orphan > > > F: docs/devel/multi-process.rst > > > F: docs/system/multi-process.rst > > > F: hw/pci-host/remote.c > > > > > > Thanks for the reminder, John! > > > > (Just for context, Cédric suggested this after my patch to update the > > libvfio-user submodule for the compilation issues.) > > > > > I’ll send a PR shortly removing parts we are not longer using. > > > > QEMU maintainers can correct me, but I'd think it has to go through a > > deprecation cycle first? > > That's generally correct. Apart from features which are clearly > unused because they were actually broken without anybody noticing, > we have a deprecation cycle where we first list the feature > in deprecated.rst; then it is in the deprecated state for > that release and the following one, and can be finally > removed in the one after that. > > However in this case as I understand it the multiprocess > feature has always been "experimental" (as marked by the > machine and device names "x-remote", "x-pci-proxy-dev", etc > having an "x-" prefix). So if we really don't think this is > likely to be being used by anybody in practice I think the > experimental state allows us to remove it without waiting. > Dan, Paolo, what do you think ? If it was always marked experimental, then we do not need to apply the deprecation process, though the maintainers can choose to do so at their discretion. 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