GVT-g status (was: Re: [PATCH 0/3] drm/i915/gvt: Deadcoding)

[Zhi Wang]

I am fine with that as well.

Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw.linux at gmail.com> 于 2025年1月11日周六 上午7:26写道：

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 12:49:27PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > On Thu, 09 Jan 2025, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 04:30:20PM +0900, Zhenyu Wang wrote:
> > >> On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 12:25:09AM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
> wrote:
> > >> > Note: zhenyuw at linux.intel.com's address bounces:
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> yeah, I've left Intel so can't use that box any more, looks Rodrigo
> hasn't
> > >> queue up my address change patch yet. Rodrigo?
> > >
> > > pushed to drm-intel-next now, although I was assuming this to come
> > > on a gvt pull request...
> > >
> > > what about this patch here? coming in a PR or should I take this
> > > directly at drm-intel-next as well?
> >
> > AFAICT the last gvt-next pull request was more than two years ago and
> > gvt-fixes slightly less than one year ago.
> >
> > There's a single cleanup commit in gvt-next applied two years ago for
> > which there hasn't been a pull request.
> >
> > The GVT github page [1] says, "This repository has been archived by the
> > owner on Oct 3, 2024. It is now read-only." The intel-gvt-dev mailing
> > list [2] appears to be mostly spam.
> >
> > Seems to me something like this would be appropriate:
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 1c3eab5d2b1a..161206fdaf05 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -11557,11 +11557,10 @@ F:  drivers/gpio/gpio-tangier.h
> >  INTEL GVT-g DRIVERS (Intel GPU Virtualization)
> >  M:   Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw.linux at gmail.com>
> >  M:   Zhi Wang <zhi.wang.linux at gmail.com>
> > -L:   intel-gvt-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
> >  L:   intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> > -S:   Supported
> > +S:   Maintained
> >  W:   https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux/wiki
> > -T:   git https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux.git
> > +T:   git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel.git
> >  F:   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/
> >
>
> Looks fine with me.
>
> Acked-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw.linux at gmail.com>
>
> >  INTEL HID EVENT DRIVER
> >
> > But I don't think it would be far from the truth to have "S: Odd Fixes"
> > either. And the extreme would be to just remove the whole maintainers
> > entry and have it fall back to the i915 entry.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
>
> When I left Intel, I have raised similar question to manager or related
> people to see their ideas on how to keep GVT-g maintenance work for
> upstream,
> but I didn't get real answers before my last day at Intel...So still cc
> some
> intel gvt related people to double confirm.
>
> For me, it's fine to remove the maintainer entry maybe only keep as
> reviewer?
>
> Thanks to raise up this issue, Jani!
>
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