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From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
        alex.williamson@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
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        shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com, kevin.tian@intel.com,
        yishaih@nvidia.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfio-pci: Provide reviewers and acceptance criteria
 for vendor drivers
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Date:   Mon, 14 Mar 2022 13:42:51 -0600
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Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> writes:

> Vendor or device specific extensions for devices exposed to userspace
> through the vfio-pci-core library open both new functionality and new
> risks.  Here we attempt to provided formalized requirements and
> expectations to ensure that future drivers both collaborate in their
> interaction with existing host drivers, as well as receive additional
> reviews from community members with experience in this area.
>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> ---

One thing...

>  .../vfio/vfio-pci-vendor-driver-acceptance.rst     |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                                        |   10 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

If you add a new RST file, you need to add it to an index.rst somewhere
so that it becomes part of the kernel docs build.

Also, though: can we avoid creating a new top-level documentation
directory for just this file?  It seems like it would logically be a
part of the maintainers guide (Documentation/maintainer) ... ?

Thanks,

jon