Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VKMS Maintainer

From: Maira Canal
Date: Tue Sep 10 2024 - 14:57:35 EST


On 9/10/24 12:10, Louis Chauvet wrote:
I've been actively working on VKMS to provide new features and
participated in reviews and testing. To help Maìra with her work, add
myself as co-maintainer of VKMS.

Signed-off-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Maíra Canal <mairacanal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please, check the procedures to apply for commit rights in drm-misc and
apply it. This way you will be able to commit your patches.

Thanks for volunteering!

Best Regards,
- Maíra

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Hi everyone,

This series [1] has been waiting for a while now, it was proposed first in
February. The first iterations had few reactions (thanks to Arthur, Pekka,
Maìra, ...), but since v8 (in May) no major issues were reported, Maìra
seemed satisfied, and only minor cosmetic changes were reported. Two other
series ([2] and [3]), that I submitted first in May, did not have receive
any reactions.

In addition, there is also some significant addition to VKMS being
proposed, such as ConfigFS support, and without a clear maintainer having
the time to review and approve these changes, these changes have very
little changes to get in.

VKMS is not a fundamental driver for "normal" Linux users, but I had some
feedback from userspace developpers that VKMS could be a very good testing
tool if only it had more features (I think P0xx formats were asked to
test HDR for example). This could also help to detect issues in DRM core
by emulating a wide range of configurations.

I believe the only active maintainer is Maìra, but as she's mentioned before,
she doesn't have much time to work on VKMS. So, I'd like to volunteer as a
maintainer. I have plenty of time to dedicate to VKMS.

I hope I've gained enough understanding of VKMS to be helful with this role.
I am eager to move forward and improve this subsystem. I've also talked to Sean
about this, and he agrees that it would be good if I could commit code to
drm-misc.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240809-yuv-v10-0-1a7c764166f7@xxxxxxxxxxx/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240814-b4-new-color-formats-v2-0-8b3499cfe90e@xxxxxxxxxxx/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240814-writeback_line_by_line-v2-0-36541c717569@xxxxxxxxxxx/
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MAINTAINERS | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 10430778c998b57944c1a6c5f07d676127e47faa..62f10356e11ab7fa9c8f79ba63b335eb6580d0a8 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -7340,6 +7340,7 @@ DRM DRIVER FOR VIRTUAL KERNEL MODESETTING (VKMS)
M: Rodrigo Siqueira <rodrigosiqueiramelo@xxxxxxxxx>
M: Melissa Wen <melissa.srw@xxxxxxxxx>
M: Maíra Canal <mairacanal@xxxxxxxxxx>
+M: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
R: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@xxxxxxxxx>
R: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
L: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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base-commit: da3ea35007d0af457a0afc87e84fddaebc4e0b63
change-id: 20240910-vkms-maintainer-7b3d2210cc1b

Best regards,