Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Add myself (Sean) as a reviewer in the main KVM entry

David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-28T19:30:33Z

On 4/28/26 19:15, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Add myself as a reviewer for overall KVM, as I have been helping shepherd
> a decent chunk of the virt/kvm commits into the kernel over the last few
> years, and I expect to continue doing so. Of the 270 non-merge commits
> that have been made to virt/kvm since v6.6, I have committed 127 (~47%)
> and Paolo has committed 117 (~43.3%), with all but 5 of the remaining 26
> coming from non-KVM folks, e.g. from treewide changes.
>
> Note, this intended to purely be an efficiency and quality of life
> improvement, for both contributors and myself. There is no implied right
> of succession or anything of the sort.
>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
> Cc: Tianrui Zhao <zhaotianrui@loongson.cn>
> Cc: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
> Cc: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 8dd5cdbef66f..a9f2a7737547 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -14034,6 +14034,7 @@ F: kernel/umh.c
>
> KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE (KVM)
> M: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> +R: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> L: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> S: Supported
> W: http://www.linux-kvm.org

I believe any bigger subsystem should have a backup in place. If that's spelled
out through an M or R depends on the subsystem.

Certainly LGTM, but if you would have made that an M, I would also not have been
struck by surprise (up to you and Paolo to figure out) :)

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Cheers,

David