Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add unmaintained bitmap file to related field

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 4/2/19 9:25 PM, Zhang, Chen wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Snow [mailto:jsnow@redhat.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:07 AM
>> To: Zhang, Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>; Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>;
>> qemu-dev <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>; Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add unmaintained bitmap
>> file to related field
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/29/19 4:20 PM, Zhang Chen wrote:
>>> From: Zhang Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>
>>>
>>> Add bitmap.h and bitops.h to Dirty Bitmaps field.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Zhang Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>  MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 56139ac8ab..360af3e8ca
>>> 100644
>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>> @@ -1773,6 +1773,8 @@ S: Supported
>>>  F: util/hbitmap.c
>>>  F: block/dirty-bitmap.c
>>>  F: include/qemu/hbitmap.h
>>> +F: include/qemu/bitmap.h
>>> +F: include/qemu/bitops.h
>>>  F: include/block/dirty-bitmap.h
>>>  F: tests/test-hbitmap.c
>>>  F: docs/interop/bitmaps.rst
>>>
>>
>> Actually, these bitmaps aren't the same kind as is used by the block storage
>> module -- these are a more generic, primitive kind that I have no association
>> with.
> 
> OK, but these two files are lack of maintenance.
> Which maintenance area do you think these two files should belong to?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Zhang Chen
> 
> 

Ehm, I'm not sure. Looks like Paolo and Stefan are the active developers
who have touched it the most.

Do the two of you want me to fold this into the bitmaps section so that
it has a point of contact?

--js