Re: [PATCH v4 0/1] hw/hyperv/vmbus: Is it maintained?

[Maciej S. Szmigiero]

On 08.11.2021 08:30, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 11/6/21 20:28, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> > On 06.11.2021 14:41, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > > This is the 4th time I send this patch. Is the VMBus infrastructure
> > > used / maintained? Should we deprecate & remove?
> > >
> > >     $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f hw/hyperv/vmbus.c -f
> > > include/hw/hyperv/vmbus.h
> > >     get_maintainer.pl: No maintainers found
> >
> > There's an email thread at [1] explaining the reasons for having VMBus
> > infrastructure last time such question was asked.
> >
> > In short: mere presence of a working VMBus is needed for some high-speed
> > Windows debugging, also people are working on VMBus host device drivers.
>
> Great. Do you mind adding an entry in MAINTAINERS to
> cover these files, so we stop wondering about them?

I will submit a patch next week adding myself as a reviewer of VMBus code
so there is at least some contact point for incoming patches.

We'll see whether the code still gets just a random patch a few times
a year or whether it requires a permanent maintainer to take care of it.

Thanks,
Maciej