Re: [PATCH] contrib/vhost-user-blk: Clean up deallocation of VuVirtqElement

[Raphael Norwitz]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 03:57:42PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 at 06:41, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Could we use a contrib/README with an explanation what "contrib" means,
> > and how to build and use the stuff there?
> 
> I would rather we got rid of contrib/ entirely. Our git repo
> should contain things we care about enough to really support
> and believe in, in which case they should be in top level
> directories matching what they are (eg tools/). If we don't
> believe in these things enough to really support them, then
> we should drop them, and let those who do care maintain them
> as out-of-tree tools if they like.
>

I can't speak for a lot of stuff in contrib/ but I find the vhost-user
backends like vhost-user-blk and vhost-user-scsi helpful for testing and
development. I would like to keep maintaining those two at least.

> subprojects/ is similarly vague.
> 

Again, I can't say much for other stuff in subprojects/ but
libvhost-user is clearly important. Maybe we move libvhost-user to
another directroy and the libvhost-user based backends there too?

> thanks
> -- PMM