Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add missing virtio/vdpa/vduse/vhost headers

[Eugenio Perez Martin]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 11:40 AM Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Several headers related to virtio, vDPA, VDUSE and vhost were not
> covered by any specific MAINTAINERS entry and fell through to the
> catch-all THE REST section:
>
> - include/linux/device-id/virtio.h: not matched by the existing
>   "include/linux/virtio*.h" glob, which only matches files directly
>   under include/linux/ and does not recurse into subdirectories.
>
> - include/uapi/linux/vdpa.h: the in-kernel include/linux/vdpa.h was
>   listed under VIRTIO CORE but its UAPI companion was missing; the
>   "include/uapi/linux/virtio_*.h" pattern does not match it because
>   the filename lacks the "virtio_" prefix.
>
> - include/uapi/linux/vduse.h: there is no dedicated VDUSE section in
>   MAINTAINERS; the driver lives under drivers/vdpa/ which is already
>   covered by VIRTIO CORE, so the UAPI header belongs there too.
>
> - include/uapi/linux/vhost_types.h: the VIRTIO HOST (VHOST) section
>   explicitly lists include/uapi/linux/vhost.h but omits its companion
>   types header.
>
> Assisted-by: claude-sonnet 4.6

I forgot:
Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

Also, in case it is useful, the model looked for all the potentially
missed files.

> Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index f53047aa8d3c..9f85882f307e 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -28903,9 +28903,12 @@ F:     drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
>  F:     drivers/crypto/virtio/
>  F:     drivers/vdpa/
>  F:     drivers/virtio/
> +F:     include/linux/device-id/virtio.h
>  F:     include/linux/vdpa.h
>  F:     include/linux/virtio*.h
>  F:     include/linux/vringh.h
> +F:     include/uapi/linux/vdpa.h
> +F:     include/uapi/linux/vduse.h
>  F:     include/uapi/linux/virtio_*.h
>  F:     net/vmw_vsock/virtio*
>  F:     tools/virtio/
> @@ -28979,6 +28982,7 @@ F:      drivers/vhost/
>  F:     include/linux/sched/vhost_task.h
>  F:     include/linux/vhost_iotlb.h
>  F:     include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
> +F:     include/uapi/linux/vhost_types.h
>  F:     kernel/vhost_task.c
>
>  VIRTIO HOST (VHOST-SCSI)
> --
> 2.56.0
>