[V6,15/15] MAINTAINERS: Update KVM/MIPS maintainers

Commit Message

Huacai Chen May 17, 2020, 4:06 a.m. UTC

James Hogan has become inactive for a long time and leaves KVM for MIPS
orphan. I'm working on KVM/Loongson and attempt to make it upstream both
in kernel and QEMU, while Aleksandar Markovic is already a maintainer of
QEMU/MIPS. We are both interested in QEMU/KVM/MIPS, and we have already
made some contributions in kernel and QEMU. If possible, we want to take
the KVM/MIPS maintainership.

Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandar Markovic <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <[e-mail]>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Thomas Bogendoerfer May 17, 2020, 8:22 a.m. UTC | #1

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 12:06:12PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> James Hogan has become inactive for a long time and leaves KVM for MIPS
> orphan. I'm working on KVM/Loongson and attempt to make it upstream both
> in kernel and QEMU, while Aleksandar Markovic is already a maintainer of
> QEMU/MIPS. We are both interested in QEMU/KVM/MIPS, and we have already
> made some contributions in kernel and QEMU. If possible, we want to take
> the KVM/MIPS maintainership.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang <[e-mail]>
> Reviewed-by: Aleksandar Markovic <[e-mail]>
> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <[e-mail]>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index e64e5db..59b3f43 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -9302,9 +9302,11 @@ F:	include/kvm/arm_*
>  F:	virt/kvm/arm/
>  
>  KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR MIPS (KVM/mips)
> +M:	Aleksandar Markovic <[e-mail]>
> +M:	Huacai Chen <[e-mail]>

not sure, if other people see the same problem with this email address,
but wouldn't it be better to use your gmail address here ?

Thomas.

Aleksandar Markovic May 18, 2020, 8:23 a.m. UTC | #2

нед, 17. мај 2020. у 10:55 Thomas Bogendoerfer
<[e-mail]> је написао/ла:
>
> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 12:06:12PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > James Hogan has become inactive for a long time and leaves KVM for MIPS
> > orphan. I'm working on KVM/Loongson and attempt to make it upstream both
> > in kernel and QEMU, while Aleksandar Markovic is already a maintainer of
> > QEMU/MIPS. We are both interested in QEMU/KVM/MIPS, and we have already
> > made some contributions in kernel and QEMU. If possible, we want to take
> > the KVM/MIPS maintainership.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang <[e-mail]>
> > Reviewed-by: Aleksandar Markovic <[e-mail]>
> > Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <[e-mail]>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index e64e5db..59b3f43 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -9302,9 +9302,11 @@ F:     include/kvm/arm_*
> >  F:   virt/kvm/arm/
> >
> >  KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR MIPS (KVM/mips)
> > +M:   Aleksandar Markovic <[e-mail]>
> > +M:   Huacai Chen <[e-mail]>
>
> not sure, if other people see the same problem with this email address,
> but wouldn't it be better to use your gmail address here ?
>

Huacai, Thomas,

I personally and surprisingly do not have any technical difficulties
communicating with Huacai using his lemote.com address.

However, I think Thomas observation makes sense. I was personally
a victim of various corporate decisions regarding emails, policies
around them, and similar. And - as you can see - I ended up switching
to gmail.com account, getting really sick and tired of repeated
unexpected and distracting problems using corporate email adresses.
Sounds strange, but it is true.

Huacei, my honest advice and recommendation to you is to accept
Thomas' suggestion, and change your email address here to gmail.
We all now you work for Lemote, and that your using gmail is just a
matter of practicality. :)

Please Huacei, do send v7 with such change, and perhaps some
other minor changes that you may or may noticed in the last minutes.

Many thanks to Thomas to noticing this that may save us from many
really unnecessary troubles in future.

Yours,
Aleksandar


> Thomas.
>
> --
> Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
> good idea.                                                [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]

Aleksandar Markovic May 21, 2020, 9:22 a.m. UTC | #3

пон, 18. мај 2020. у 10:23 Aleksandar Markovic
<[e-mail]> је написао/ла:
>
> нед, 17. мај 2020. у 10:55 Thomas Bogendoerfer
> <[e-mail]> је написао/ла:
> >
> > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 12:06:12PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > > James Hogan has become inactive for a long time and leaves KVM for MIPS
> > > orphan. I'm working on KVM/Loongson and attempt to make it upstream both
> > > in kernel and QEMU, while Aleksandar Markovic is already a maintainer of
> > > QEMU/MIPS. We are both interested in QEMU/KVM/MIPS, and we have already
> > > made some contributions in kernel and QEMU. If possible, we want to take
> > > the KVM/MIPS maintainership.
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang <[e-mail]>
> > > Reviewed-by: Aleksandar Markovic <[e-mail]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <[e-mail]>
> > > ---
> > >  MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index e64e5db..59b3f43 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -9302,9 +9302,11 @@ F:     include/kvm/arm_*
> > >  F:   virt/kvm/arm/
> > >
> > >  KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR MIPS (KVM/mips)
> > > +M:   Aleksandar Markovic <[e-mail]>
> > > +M:   Huacai Chen <[e-mail]>
> >
> > not sure, if other people see the same problem with this email address,
> > but wouldn't it be better to use your gmail address here ?
> >
>
> Huacai, Thomas,
>
> I personally and surprisingly do not have any technical difficulties
> communicating with Huacai using his lemote.com address.
>
> However, I think Thomas observation makes sense. I was personally
> a victim of various corporate decisions regarding emails, policies
> around them, and similar. And - as you can see - I ended up switching
> to gmail.com account, getting really sick and tired of repeated
> unexpected and distracting problems using corporate email adresses.
> Sounds strange, but it is true.
>
> Huacei, my honest advice and recommendation to you is to accept
> Thomas' suggestion, and change your email address here to gmail.
> We all now you work for Lemote, and that your using gmail is just a
> matter of practicality. :)
>
> Please Huacei, do send v7 with such change, and perhaps some
> other minor changes that you may or may noticed in the last minutes.
>

But, Huacai, please do not misunderstand me. I am perfectly fine with
your lemote.com address, and do not have even the slightest technical
problem using (sending/receiving messages) it.

So, I was not requesting v7 - I just wanted to help eliminate that ridiculous
technical detail stopping this patch series, I am absolutely fine and even
strongly support v6 in its entire intact form.

Best Regards,
Aleksandar



> Many thanks to Thomas to noticing this that may save us from many
> really unnecessary troubles in future.
>
> Yours,
> Aleksandar
>
>
> > Thomas.
> >
> > --
> > Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
> > good idea.                                                [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]

Huacai Chen May 21, 2020, 9:45 a.m. UTC | #4

Hi, Aleksandar,

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 5:23 PM Aleksandar Markovic
<[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> пон, 18. мај 2020. у 10:23 Aleksandar Markovic
> <[e-mail]> је написао/ла:
> >
> > нед, 17. мај 2020. у 10:55 Thomas Bogendoerfer
> > <[e-mail]> је написао/ла:
> > >
> > > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 12:06:12PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > > > James Hogan has become inactive for a long time and leaves KVM for MIPS
> > > > orphan. I'm working on KVM/Loongson and attempt to make it upstream both
> > > > in kernel and QEMU, while Aleksandar Markovic is already a maintainer of
> > > > QEMU/MIPS. We are both interested in QEMU/KVM/MIPS, and we have already
> > > > made some contributions in kernel and QEMU. If possible, we want to take
> > > > the KVM/MIPS maintainership.
> > > >
> > > > Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang <[e-mail]>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Aleksandar Markovic <[e-mail]>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <[e-mail]>
> > > > ---
> > > >  MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
> > > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > index e64e5db..59b3f43 100644
> > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > @@ -9302,9 +9302,11 @@ F:     include/kvm/arm_*
> > > >  F:   virt/kvm/arm/
> > > >
> > > >  KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR MIPS (KVM/mips)
> > > > +M:   Aleksandar Markovic <[e-mail]>
> > > > +M:   Huacai Chen <[e-mail]>
> > >
> > > not sure, if other people see the same problem with this email address,
> > > but wouldn't it be better to use your gmail address here ?
> > >
> >
> > Huacai, Thomas,
> >
> > I personally and surprisingly do not have any technical difficulties
> > communicating with Huacai using his lemote.com address.
> >
> > However, I think Thomas observation makes sense. I was personally
> > a victim of various corporate decisions regarding emails, policies
> > around them, and similar. And - as you can see - I ended up switching
> > to gmail.com account, getting really sick and tired of repeated
> > unexpected and distracting problems using corporate email adresses.
> > Sounds strange, but it is true.
> >
> > Huacei, my honest advice and recommendation to you is to accept
> > Thomas' suggestion, and change your email address here to gmail.
> > We all now you work for Lemote, and that your using gmail is just a
> > matter of practicality. :)
> >
> > Please Huacei, do send v7 with such change, and perhaps some
> > other minor changes that you may or may noticed in the last minutes.
> >
>
> But, Huacai, please do not misunderstand me. I am perfectly fine with
> your lemote.com address, and do not have even the slightest technical
> problem using (sending/receiving messages) it.
>
> So, I was not requesting v7 - I just wanted to help eliminate that ridiculous
> technical detail stopping this patch series, I am absolutely fine and even
> strongly support v6 in its entire intact form.
>
> Best Regards,
> Aleksandar
I'm sorry for the late response. These days I'm attempting to collect
some maintainers' PGP signatures, in order to get a kernel.org
account. So, I think we can keep the lemote.com address in MAINTAINERS
now, and update to the kernel.org address when I succeed.

Regards,
Huacai
>
>
>
> > Many thanks to Thomas to noticing this that may save us from many
> > really unnecessary troubles in future.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Aleksandar
> >
> >
> > > Thomas.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
> > > good idea.                                                [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]

Aleksandar Markovic May 21, 2020, 11:04 a.m. UTC | #5

> I'm sorry for the late response. These days I'm attempting to collect
> some maintainers' PGP signatures, in order to get a kernel.org
> account. So, I think we can keep the lemote.com address in MAINTAINERS
> now, and update to the kernel.org address when I succeed.
>

I agree. E-mail address can be easily changed later.

I think it is reasonable that minor email tech problems should not stop
this series.

I gather that at least approximate consensus is that v6 is "good to go".

While I am at this series, I just want to let everybody that there is a
long-standing practice in QEMU for MIPS that we don't upstream
changes that depend on kernel support that is not yet upstreamed
in kernel - and I want to keep that practice in future (and not limited
to KVM, but for all kernel/QEMU interdependant code).

In other words, corresponding Huacai's changes in QEMU will be
kept on hold as long as this series is still not upstreamed in kernel.
But, that was the original Huacai's plan anyway.

Many thanks to everyone involved!

Aleksandar



> Regards,
> Huacai

Paolo Bonzini May 21, 2020, 2:04 p.m. UTC | #6

On 21/05/20 13:04, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> I agree. E-mail address can be easily changed later.
> 
> I think it is reasonable that minor email tech problems should not stop
> this series.
> 
> I gather that at least approximate consensus is that v6 is "good to go".
> 
> While I am at this series, I just want to let everybody that there is a
> long-standing practice in QEMU for MIPS that we don't upstream
> changes that depend on kernel support that is not yet upstreamed
> in kernel - and I want to keep that practice in future (and not limited
> to KVM, but for all kernel/QEMU interdependant code).
> 
> In other words, corresponding Huacai's changes in QEMU will be
> kept on hold as long as this series is still not upstreamed in kernel.
> But, that was the original Huacai's plan anyway.

I am going to queue them for 5.8.

Thanks,

Paolo

Huacai Chen May 22, 2020, 5:34 a.m. UTC | #7

Hi, Paolo,

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:05 PM Paolo Bonzini <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> On 21/05/20 13:04, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> > I agree. E-mail address can be easily changed later.
> >
> > I think it is reasonable that minor email tech problems should not stop
> > this series.
> >
> > I gather that at least approximate consensus is that v6 is "good to go".
> >
> > While I am at this series, I just want to let everybody that there is a
> > long-standing practice in QEMU for MIPS that we don't upstream
> > changes that depend on kernel support that is not yet upstreamed
> > in kernel - and I want to keep that practice in future (and not limited
> > to KVM, but for all kernel/QEMU interdependant code).
> >
> > In other words, corresponding Huacai's changes in QEMU will be
> > kept on hold as long as this series is still not upstreamed in kernel.
> > But, that was the original Huacai's plan anyway.
>
> I am going to queue them for 5.8.
Thank you for your help. But this series depends on an early patch
from Jiaxun Yang ("MIPS: Loongson64: Probe CPU features via CPUCFG")
which seems only in MIPS tree now. So, maybe this series is better be
queued in Thomas's tree?

>
> Thanks,
>
> Paolo
>
Huacai

Paolo Bonzini May 22, 2020, 7:24 a.m. UTC | #8

On 22/05/20 07:34, Huacai Chen wrote:
>> I am going to queue them for 5.8.
> Thank you for your help. But this series depends on an early patch
> from Jiaxun Yang ("MIPS: Loongson64: Probe CPU features via CPUCFG")
> which seems only in MIPS tree now. So, maybe this series is better be
> queued in Thomas's tree?
> 

That's not a problem, I can handle it during the merge window.  In the
future I'd ask for a topic branch or something like that.

Thanks for bringing KVM/MIPS back to life. :)

Paolo

bibo mao May 22, 2020, 12:16 p.m. UTC | #9

thank huacai for the efforts, kvm mips is coming back :)


> -----原始邮件-----
&gt; 发件人: "Paolo Bonzini" <[e-mail]>
&gt; 发送时间: 2020-05-22 15:24:42 (星期五)
&gt; 收件人: "Huacai Chen" <[e-mail]>
&gt; 抄送: "Aleksandar Markovic" <[e-mail]>, "Thomas Bogendoerfer" <[e-mail]>, kvm <[e-mail]>, "open list:MIPS" <[e-mail]>, "Fuxin Zhang" <[e-mail]>, "Jiaxun Yang" <[e-mail]>
&gt; 主题: Re: [PATCH V6 15/15] MAINTAINERS: Update KVM/MIPS maintainers
&gt; 
&gt; On 22/05/20 07:34, Huacai Chen wrote:
&gt; &gt;&gt; I am going to queue them for 5.8.
&gt; &gt; Thank you for your help. But this series depends on an early patch
&gt; &gt; from Jiaxun Yang ("MIPS: Loongson64: Probe CPU features via CPUCFG")
&gt; &gt; which seems only in MIPS tree now. So, maybe this series is better be
&gt; &gt; queued in Thomas's tree?
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; That's not a problem, I can handle it during the merge window.  In the
&gt; future I'd ask for a topic branch or something like that.
&gt; 
&gt; Thanks for bringing KVM/MIPS back to life. :)
&gt; 
&gt; Paolo
</[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]>

Huacai Chen May 23, 2020, 2:35 a.m. UTC | #10

Hi, Bibo,

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 8:16 PM 毛碧波 <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> thank huacai for the efforts, kvm mips is coming back :)
I also need to thank you and Li Xing for your help.

Btw: As Xuerui and Jiaxun said, please fix your email client,
otherwise you are killing the maillist.

>
>
> &gt; -----原始邮件-----
> &gt; 发件人: "Paolo Bonzini" <[e-mail]>
> &gt; 发送时间: 2020-05-22 15:24:42 (星期五)
> &gt; 收件人: "Huacai Chen" <[e-mail]>
> &gt; 抄送: "Aleksandar Markovic" <[e-mail]>, "Thomas Bogendoerfer" <[e-mail]>, kvm <[e-mail]>, "open list:MIPS" <[e-mail]>, "Fuxin Zhang" <[e-mail]>, "Jiaxun Yang" <[e-mail]>
> &gt; 主题: Re: [PATCH V6 15/15] MAINTAINERS: Update KVM/MIPS maintainers
> &gt;
> &gt; On 22/05/20 07:34, Huacai Chen wrote:
> &gt; &gt;&gt; I am going to queue them for 5.8.
> &gt; &gt; Thank you for your help. But this series depends on an early patch
> &gt; &gt; from Jiaxun Yang ("MIPS: Loongson64: Probe CPU features via CPUCFG")
> &gt; &gt; which seems only in MIPS tree now. So, maybe this series is better be
> &gt; &gt; queued in Thomas's tree?
> &gt; &gt;
> &gt;
> &gt; That's not a problem, I can handle it during the merge window.  In the
> &gt; future I'd ask for a topic branch or something like that.
> &gt;
> &gt; Thanks for bringing KVM/MIPS back to life. :)
> &gt;
> &gt; Paolo
> </[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]></[e-mail]>

Patch

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e64e5db..59b3f43 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -9302,9 +9302,11 @@  F:	include/kvm/arm_*
 F:	virt/kvm/arm/
 
 KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR MIPS (KVM/mips)
+M:	Aleksandar Markovic <[e-mail]>
+M:	Huacai Chen <[e-mail]>
 L:	[e-mail]
 L:	[e-mail]
-S:	Orphan
+S:	Maintained
 F:	arch/mips/include/asm/kvm*
 F:	arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/kvm*
 F:	arch/mips/kvm/