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Message-ID: <1c536f8e9666725ce9f3eb97acc34d08f38d2095.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:18:15 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@...are.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "rajeshjalisatgi@...il.com" <rajeshjalisatgi@...il.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Pv-drivers <Pv-drivers@...are.com>,
        Bryan Tan <bryantan@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VMCI: Update maintainers for VMCI

On Tue, 2022-07-26 at 15:55 +0000, Vishnu Dasa wrote:
> > On Jul 26, 2022, at 8:10 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 06:29:25PM +0000, Vishnu Dasa wrote:
> > > > On Jul 25, 2022, at 11:05 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:32:46AM -0700, vdasa@...are.com wrote:
> > > > > From: Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@...are.com>
> > > > > Remove Rajesh as a maintainer for the VMCI driver.
> > > > Why?
> > > Rajesh is no longer with VMware and won't be working on VMCI.
> > 
> > But employment does not matter for maintainership and has nothing to do
> > with it.  Maintainership follows the person, not the company, you all
> > know this.
> > 
> > So for obvious reasons, I can't take this type of change without
> > Rajesh acking it.
> 
> I understand.  After getting in touch with Rajesh, cc'ing him via his
> personal email ID.
> 
> Rajesh, could you please provide your ack if you agree with this patch to
> remove you as the maintainer for VMCI?

If being an employee of a company is a criteria for maintainership
of this subsystem, likely the subsystem entry should be:

"S:	Supported" not "S:	Maintained"

MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMCI DRIVER
MAINTAINERS-M:  Bryan Tan <bryantan@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-M:  Rajesh Jalisatgi <rjalisatgi@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-M:  Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-R:  VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-L:  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S:  Maintained

Likely that's true for every VMware entry.

MAINTAINERS:VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER
MAINTAINERS-M:  Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-R:  VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-L:  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S:  Maintained
MAINTAINERS-F:  drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
MAINTAINERS-
MAINTAINERS:VMWARE PVRDMA DRIVER
MAINTAINERS-M:  Bryan Tan <bryantan@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-M:  Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-R:  VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-L:  linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S:  Maintained
MAINTAINERS-F:  drivers/infiniband/hw/vmw_pvrdma/
MAINTAINERS-
MAINTAINERS-VMware PVSCSI driver
MAINTAINERS-M:  Vishal Bhakta <vbhakta@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-R:  VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-L:  linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S:  Maintained
MAINTAINERS-F:  drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c
MAINTAINERS-F:  drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.h
MAINTAINERS-
MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMMOUSE SUBDRIVER
MAINTAINERS-M:  Zack Rusin <zackr@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-R:  VMware Graphics Reviewers <linux-graphics-maintainer@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-R:  VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-L:  linux-input@...r.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S:  Maintained
MAINTAINERS-F:  drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.c
MAINTAINERS-F:  drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.h
MAINTAINERS-
MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMXNET3 ETHERNET DRIVER
MAINTAINERS-M:  Ronak Doshi <doshir@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-R:  VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@...are.com>
MAINTAINERS-L:  netdev@...r.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S:  Maintained
MAINTAINERS-F:  drivers/net/vmxnet3/
MAINTAINERS-

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