On Tue, 2022-07-26 at 15:55 +0000, Vishnu Dasa wrote:> > On Jul 26, 2022, at 8:10 AM, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 06:29:25PM +0000, Vishnu Dasa wrote:
> > > > On Jul 25, 2022, at 11:05 AM, Greg KH <gregkh at
linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:32:46AM -0700, vdasa at
vmware.com wrote:
> > > > > From: Vishnu Dasa <vdasa at vmware.com>
> > > > > Remove Rajesh as a maintainer for the VMCI driver.
> > > > Why?
> > > Rajesh is no longer with VMware and won't be working on VMCI.
> >
> > But employment does not matter for maintainership and has nothing to
do
> > with it. Maintainership follows the person, not the company, you all
> > know this.
> >
> > So for obvious reasons, I can't take this type of change without
> > Rajesh acking it.
>
> I understand. After getting in touch with Rajesh, cc'ing him via his
> personal email ID.
>
> Rajesh, could you please provide your ack if you agree with this patch to
> remove you as the maintainer for VMCI?
If being an employee of a company is a criteria for maintainership
of this subsystem, likely the subsystem entry should be:
"S: Supported" not "S: Maintained"
MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMCI DRIVER
MAINTAINERS-M: Bryan Tan <bryantan at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-M: Rajesh Jalisatgi <rjalisatgi at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-M: Vishnu Dasa <vdasa at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-L: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
Likely that's true for every VMware entry.
MAINTAINERS:VMWARE BALLOON DRIVER
MAINTAINERS-M: Nadav Amit <namit at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-L: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
MAINTAINERS-
MAINTAINERS:VMWARE PVRDMA DRIVER
MAINTAINERS-M: Bryan Tan <bryantan at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-M: Vishnu Dasa <vdasa at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-L: linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/infiniband/hw/vmw_pvrdma/
MAINTAINERS-
MAINTAINERS-VMware PVSCSI driver
MAINTAINERS-M: Vishal Bhakta <vbhakta at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-L: linux-scsi at vger.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c
MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.h
MAINTAINERS-
MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMMOUSE SUBDRIVER
MAINTAINERS-M: Zack Rusin <zackr at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-R: VMware Graphics Reviewers <linux-graphics-maintainer at
vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-L: linux-input at vger.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.c
MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/input/mouse/vmmouse.h
MAINTAINERS-
MAINTAINERS:VMWARE VMXNET3 ETHERNET DRIVER
MAINTAINERS-M: Ronak Doshi <doshir at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-R: VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers at vmware.com>
MAINTAINERS-L: netdev at vger.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-S: Maintained
MAINTAINERS-F: drivers/net/vmxnet3/
MAINTAINERS-