Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove widely sanctioned entities

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 2/21/25 17:14, Alex Bennée wrote:
> The following organisations appear on the US sanctions list:
> 
>    Yadro: https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=41125
>    ISPRAS: https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=50890
> 
> As a result maintainers interacting with such entities would face
> legal risk in a number of jurisdictions. To reduce the risk of
> inadvertent non-compliance remove entries from these organisations
> from the MAINTAINERS file.
> 
> Mark the pcf8574 system as orphaned until someone volunteers to step
> up as a maintainer. Add myself as a second reviewer to record/replay
> so I can help with what odd fixes I can.

pcf8574 could actually be removed because it's unused in the boards we 
have; it could be added on the command line but its usefulness is 
doubtful without GPIO connections.

I'm sure everyone would rather avoid this but, given that neither person 
was particularly active, it doesn't change much to go for the safer option.

Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Paolo

> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 7 +++----
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3848d37a38..55b2ef219e 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -2523,8 +2523,7 @@ F: hw/i2c/i2c_mux_pca954x.c
>   F: include/hw/i2c/i2c_mux_pca954x.h
>   
>   pcf8574
> -M: Dmitrii Sharikhin <d.sharikhin@yadro.com>
> -S: Maintained
> +S: Orphaned
>   F: hw/gpio/pcf8574.c
>   F: include/gpio/pcf8574.h
>   
> @@ -3621,10 +3620,10 @@ F: net/filter-mirror.c
>   F: tests/qtest/test-filter*
>   
>   Record/replay
> -M: Pavel Dovgalyuk <pavel.dovgaluk@ispras.ru>
>   R: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> +R: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>   W: https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/record-replay
> -S: Supported
> +S: Odd Fixes
>   F: replay/*
>   F: block/blkreplay.c
>   F: net/filter-replay.c