2022-09-06 17:40:41

by Vishnu Dasa

Subject: [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Change status of some VMware drivers

From: Vishnu Dasa <[email protected]>

Change the status from 'Maintained' to 'Supported' for VMWARE
BALLOON DRIVER, VMWARE PVRDMA DRIVER, VMWARE PVSCSI driver,
VMWARE VMCI DRIVER, VMWARE VMMOUSE SUBDRIVER and VMWARE VMXNET3
ETHERNET DRIVER.

This needs to be done to conform to the guidelines in [1].
Maintainers for these drivers are VMware employees.

[1] https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainers.html

Signed-off-by: Vishnu Dasa <[email protected]>
---
MAINTAINERS | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index b75eb23a099b..5a634b5d6f6c 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -21812,7 +21812,7 @@ VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER
M: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
-S: Maintained
+S: Supported
F: drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c

VMWARE HYPERVISOR INTERFACE
@@ -21831,14 +21831,14 @@ M: Bryan Tan <[email protected]>
M: Vishnu Dasa <[email protected]>
R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
-S: Maintained
+S: Supported
F: drivers/infiniband/hw/vmw_pvrdma/

VMWARE PVSCSI DRIVER
M: Vishal Bhakta <[email protected]>
R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
-S: Maintained
+S: Supported
F: drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c
F: drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.h

@@ -21854,7 +21854,7 @@ M: Bryan Tan <[email protected]>
M: Vishnu Dasa <[email protected]>
R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
-S: Maintained
+S: Supported
F: drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/

VMWARE VMMOUSE SUBDRIVER
@@ -21862,7 +21862,7 @@ M: Zack Rusin <[email protected]>
R: VMware Graphics Reviewers <[email protected]>
R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
-S: Maintained
+S: Supported
F: drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.c
F: drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.h

@@ -21870,7 +21870,7 @@ VMWARE VMXNET3 ETHERNET DRIVER
M: Ronak Doshi <[email protected]>
R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
-S: Maintained
+S: Supported
F: drivers/net/vmxnet3/

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2022-09-06 18:23:37

by Nadav Amit

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Change status of some VMware drivers

On Sep 6, 2022, at 10:27 AM, Vishnu Dasa <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Vishnu Dasa <[email protected]>
>
> Change the status from 'Maintained' to 'Supported' for VMWARE
> BALLOON DRIVER, VMWARE PVRDMA DRIVER, VMWARE PVSCSI driver,
> VMWARE VMCI DRIVER, VMWARE VMMOUSE SUBDRIVER and VMWARE VMXNET3
> ETHERNET DRIVER.
>
> This needs to be done to conform to the guidelines in [1].
> Maintainers for these drivers are VMware employees.
>
> [1] https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainers.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Vishnu Dasa <[email protected]>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index b75eb23a099b..5a634b5d6f6c 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -21812,7 +21812,7 @@ VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER
> M: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
> R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <[email protected]>
> L: [email protected]
> -S: Maintained
> +S: Supported
> F: drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c

Acked-by: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>