Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Improve section headlines

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 5/31/19 5:36 AM, Stafford Horne wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 05:08:52PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> When scripts/get_maintainer.pl reports something like
>>
>>     John Doe <jdoe@example.org> (maintainer:Overall)
>>
>> the user is left to wonder *which* of our three "Overall" sections
>> applies.  We have three, one each under "Guest CPU cores (TCG)",
>> "Guest CPU Cores (KVM)", and "Overall usermode emulation".
>>
>> Rename sections under
>>
>> * "Guest CPU cores (TCG)" from "FOO" to "FOO CPU cores (TCG)"
>>
>> * "Guest CPU Cores (KVM)" from "FOO" to "FOO CPU cores (KVM)"
>>
>> * "Guest CPU Cores (Xen)" from "FOO" to "FOO CPU cores (Xen)"
>>
>> * "Architecture support" from "FOO" to "FOO general architecture
>>   support"
>>
>> * "Tiny Code Generator (TCG)" from "FOO target" to "FOO TCG target"
>>
>> While there,
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  MAINTAINERS | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>>  1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> 
> ... 
> 
>> -OpenRISC
>> +OpenRISC CPU cores (TCG)
>>  M: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
>>  S: Odd Fixes
>>  F: target/openrisc/
>>  F: hw/openrisc/
>>  F: tests/tcg/openrisc/
>>  
> 
> As directories listed there I look over both target/ (TCG?) and hw/.
> Would it be better to be 'OpenRISC general architecture'?

There is a historical separation between target/ and hw/ because they
cover different concepts, and have different maintainers/reviewers.

- target/$arch/ is for TCG/KVM
- hw/ is for machines and their devices
  (some devices are reused by multiple archs)

Although the separation is not always clear (some devices are tied to an
architecture, some architecture instruction directly access devices) I'd
prefer we keep 2 distincts MAINTAINERS sections (keeping you maintainer
of both). This will ease developper with specific background/interests
to volunteer to a particular section.

Regards,

Phil.