linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VKMS Maintainer

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Message-ID: <55fa8756-1082-45b9-8edb-5b3fd6722e08@igalia.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:54:58 -0300
From: Maíra Canal <mcanal@...lia.com>
To: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>, rodrigosiqueiramelo@...il.com,
 melissa.srw@...il.com, hamohammed.sa@...il.com, daniel@...ll.ch,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com,
 mripard@...nel.org, tzimmermann@...e.de, sean@...rly.run
Cc: thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 seanpaul@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VKMS Maintainer

Hi Louis,

On 9/10/24 12:10, Louis Chauvet wrote:
> I've been actively working on VKMS to provide new features and
> participated in reviews and testing. To help Maìra with her work, add
> myself as co-maintainer of VKMS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>

I see that you're now a developer in the drm/misc repo. Therefore, I
applied this patch to misc/kernel.git (drm-misc-next).

Thanks for volunteering!

Best Regards,
- Maíra

> ---
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This series [1] has been waiting for a while now, it was proposed first in
> February. The first iterations had few reactions (thanks to Arthur, Pekka,
> Maìra, ...), but since v8 (in May) no major issues were reported, Maìra
> seemed satisfied, and only minor cosmetic changes were reported. Two other
> series ([2] and [3]), that I submitted first in May, did not have receive
> any reactions.
> 
> In addition, there is also some significant addition to VKMS being
> proposed, such as ConfigFS support, and without a clear maintainer having
> the time to review and approve these changes, these changes have very
> little changes to get in.
> 
> VKMS is not a fundamental driver for "normal" Linux users, but I had some
> feedback from userspace developpers that VKMS could be a very good testing
> tool if only it had more features (I think P0xx formats were asked to
> test HDR for example). This could also help to detect issues in DRM core
> by emulating a wide range of configurations.
> 
> I believe the only active maintainer is Maìra, but as she's mentioned before,
> she doesn't have much time to work on VKMS. So, I'd like to volunteer as a
> maintainer. I have plenty of time to dedicate to VKMS.
> 
> I hope I've gained enough understanding of VKMS to be helful with this role.
> I am eager to move forward and improve this subsystem. I've also talked to Sean
> about this, and he agrees that it would be good if I could commit code to
> drm-misc.
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240809-yuv-v10-0-1a7c764166f7@bootlin.com/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240814-b4-new-color-formats-v2-0-8b3499cfe90e@bootlin.com/
> [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240814-writeback_line_by_line-v2-0-36541c717569@bootlin.com/
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 10430778c998b57944c1a6c5f07d676127e47faa..62f10356e11ab7fa9c8f79ba63b335eb6580d0a8 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -7340,6 +7340,7 @@ DRM DRIVER FOR VIRTUAL KERNEL MODESETTING (VKMS)
>   M:	Rodrigo Siqueira <rodrigosiqueiramelo@...il.com>
>   M:	Melissa Wen <melissa.srw@...il.com>
>   M:	Maíra Canal <mairacanal@...eup.net>
> +M:	Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>
>   R:	Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@...il.com>
>   R:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
>   L:	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
> 
> ---
> base-commit: da3ea35007d0af457a0afc87e84fddaebc4e0b63
> change-id: 20240910-vkms-maintainer-7b3d2210cc1b
> 
> Best regards,