Re: [PATCH] Add hvc_console to MAINTAINERS

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Tue Mar 31 2009 - 20:04:26 EST


On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 19:50 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:44:00AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> >On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:29 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >> Add a MAINTAINERS entry for the hypervisor virtual console support
> >> used on IBM POWER servers.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >> index c5f4e9d..387ad45 100644
> >> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >> @@ -2176,6 +2176,11 @@ W: http://www.ia64-linux.org/
> >> T: git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git
> >> S: Maintained
> >>
> >> +IBM HYPERVISOR VIRTUAL CONSOLE
> >> +P: Several
> >> +L: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> +S: Maintained
> >
> >I don't think it's the "IBM" Hypervisor virtual console driver anymore.
> >There are backends for Xen, Beat (Toshiba) and virtio.
>
> Was just going by the copyright in the files, and Documentation/powerpc/hvc*
>
> Also, if there are other backends, then is the list specified really
> correct? Perhaps it should just be linux-kernel.

I would say /also/ linux-kernel.

I think there's still more folks on linux-ppc who have looked at the
driver than elsewhere, but cross-posting to lkml is probably good as
well.

cheers

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