From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
Jon Doron <arilou@gmail.com>,
qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Roman Kagan <rvkagan@yandex-team.ru>,
"Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/1] hw/hyperv/vmbus: Is it maintained?
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 16:23:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec422556-2152-cda8-a2df-24b9cc41bd2c@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96683e8d-9633-7cb8-98ab-0a8791e1c63e@redhat.com>
On 08.11.2021 08:30, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 11/6/21 20:28, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>> On 06.11.2021 14:41, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> This is the 4th time I send this patch. Is the VMBus infrastructure
>>> used / maintained? Should we deprecate & remove?
>>>
>>> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f hw/hyperv/vmbus.c -f
>>> include/hw/hyperv/vmbus.h
>>> get_maintainer.pl: No maintainers found
>>
>> There's an email thread at [1] explaining the reasons for having VMBus
>> infrastructure last time such question was asked.
>>
>> In short: mere presence of a working VMBus is needed for some high-speed
>> Windows debugging, also people are working on VMBus host device drivers.
>
> Great. Do you mind adding an entry in MAINTAINERS to
> cover these files, so we stop wondering about them?
>
I will submit a patch next week adding myself as a reviewer of VMBus code
so there is at least some contact point for incoming patches.
We'll see whether the code still gets just a random patch a few times
a year or whether it requires a permanent maintainer to take care of it.
Thanks,
Maciej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-13 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-06 13:41 [PATCH v4 0/1] hw/hyperv/vmbus: Is it maintained? Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-11-06 13:41 ` [PATCH v4 1/1] hw/hyperv/vmbus: Remove unused vmbus_load/save_req() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-11-06 19:28 ` [PATCH v4 0/1] hw/hyperv/vmbus: Is it maintained? Maciej S. Szmigiero
2021-11-08 7:30 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-11-13 15:23 ` Maciej S. Szmigiero [this message]
2021-11-12 18:32 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-11-12 20:39 ` Roman Kagan
2021-11-13 15:23 ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2021-11-16 10:05 ` Jon Doron
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