Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm/arm64: KVM: MMIO support for BE guest

Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-11T18:41:47Z

Il 11/11/2013 19:26, Marc Zyngier ha scritto:
>> > The pull requests were clean and my life wasn't complicated much... On
>> > the other hand I'm trying to understand if there's something that can be
>> > improved because the conflict surprised me. Right now, in fact, it's
>> > not even entirely clear to me why ARM and ARM64 have separate maintainers.
> Mostly because arm64 was developed and merged before any kind of useful
> documentation was publicly available. As I've written most of the code,
> it was only logical that I'd assume responsibility for it.

That was my understanding as well.

> Christoffer and I are actually working quite well together, and I don't
> think there is much to improve, short of sharing a common git tree. And
> to be perfectly clear, I wouldn't mind if we were written down as
> co-maintainers for both ports...

Then go for it. :) Send a patch to MAINTAINERS, get an Acked-by from
Christoffer and I'll apply it.

Gleb and I share the git tree and hand it off "formally" by email every
1 or 2 weeks to the other person. After the email is sent, the sender
should no longer push to the shared tree. This however is by no means
the only way to proceed, having separate trees and sending separate pull
requests works well too. I would not mind the occasional conflict, and
I'd be hardly surprised.

Thanks,

Paolo