Re: [PATCH v4 00/20] KVM RISC-V Support

[Paul Walmsley]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> However, for Linux releases after 5.4 I would rather get pull requests 
> for arch/riscv/kvm from Anup and Atish without involving the RISC-V 
> tree.  Of course, they or I will ask for your ack, or for a topic 
> branch, on the occasion that something touches files outside their 
> maintainership area.  This is how things are already being handled for 
> ARM, POWER and s390 and it allows me to handle conflicts in common KVM 
> files before they reach Linus; these are more common than conflicts in 
> arch files. If you have further questions on git and maintenance 
> workflows, just ask!

In principle, that's fine with me, as long as the arch/riscv maintainers 
and mailing lists are kept in the loop.  We already do something similar 
to this for the RISC-V BPF JIT.  However, I'd like this to be explicitly 
documented in the MAINTAINERS file, as it is for BPF.  It looks like it 
isn't for ARM, POWER, or S390, either looking at MAINTAINERS or 
spot-checking scripts/get_maintainer.pl:

$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c 
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> (supporter:KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE for s390 (KVM/s390))
Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (supporter:KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE for s390 (KVM/s390))
David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> (reviewer:KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE for s390 (KVM/s390))
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx> (reviewer:KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE for s390 (KVM/s390))
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> (supporter:S390)
Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (supporter:S390)
linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE for s390 (KVM/s390))
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)
$

Would you be willing to send a MAINTAINERS patch to formalize this 
practice?


- Paul