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([2001:b07:6468:f312:c8dd:75d4:99ab:290a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v10sm28926558wrq.0.2021.05.19.04.18.45 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 19 May 2021 04:18:46 -0700 (PDT) To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Anup Patel Cc: Anup Patel , Palmer Dabbelt , Palmer Dabbelt , Paul Walmsley , Albert Ou , Jonathan Corbet , Alexander Graf , Atish Patra , Alistair Francis , Damien Le Moal , KVM General , kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-riscv , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev References: <20210519033553.1110536-1-anup.patel@wdc.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 00/18] KVM RISC-V Support Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 13:18:44 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=pbonzini@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Language: en-US X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20210519_041853_524272_F9F31E1E X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 21.97 ) X-BeenThere: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "linux-riscv" Errors-To: linux-riscv-bounces+linux-riscv=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 19/05/21 12:47, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> It is not a dumping ground for stuff that arch maintainers can not seem >> to agree on, and it is not a place where you can just randomly play >> around with user/kernel apis with no consequences. >> >> So no, sorry, not going to take this code at all. > > And to be a bit more clear about this, having other subsystem > maintainers drop their unwanted code on this subsystem,_without_ even > asking me first is just not very nice. All of a sudden I am now > responsible for this stuff, without me even being asked about it. > Should I start throwing random drivers into the kvm subsystem for them > to maintain because I don't want to?:) (I did see the smiley), I'm on board with throwing random drivers in arch/riscv. :) The situation here didn't seem very far from what process/2.Process.rst says about staging: - "a way to keep track of drivers that aren't up to standards", though in this case the issue is not coding standards or quality---the code is very good---and which people "may want to use" - the code could be removed if there's no progress on either changing the RISC-V acceptance policy or ratifying the spec Of course there should have been a TODO file explaining the situation. But if you think this is not the right place, I totally understand; if my opinion had any weight in this, I would just place it in arch/riscv/kvm. The RISC-V acceptance policy as is just doesn't work, and the fact that people are trying to work around it is proving it. There are many ways to improve it: - get rid of it; - provide a path to get an exception; - provide a staging place sot hat people to do their job of contributing code to Linux (e.g. arch/riscv/staging/kvm). If everything else fail, I guess we can place it in drivers/virt/riscv/kvm, even though that's just as silly a workaround. It's a pity because the RISC-V virtualization architecture has a very nice design, and the KVM code is also a very good example of how to do things right. Paolo > If there's really no other way to do this, than to put it in staging, > let's talk about it. But saying "this must go here" is not a > conversation... _______________________________________________ linux-riscv mailing list linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv