Re: [PATCH v11 00/11] Add VIRTIO sound card

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 04:44:00PM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> Thank you for your reply;
> 
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:08, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:49:00AM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:34, Manos Pitsidianakis 
> > > <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > > This patch series adds an audio device implementing the recent virtio
> > > > sound spec (1.2) and a corresponding PCI wrapper device.
> > > > > v11 can be found online at:
> > > > > https://gitlab.com/epilys/qemu/-/tree/virtio-snd-v11
> > > > > Ref 885b01fe272541fdab5583780d4c3a59bfd8e734
> > > > Hello Gerd, MAINTAINERS says you own the hw/audio subsystem, would
> > > you pull
> > > this in your tree if/when it is to be merged?
> > > 
> > > For context, the device was in hw/audio initially but in early list
> > > discussions we decided to move it with the rest of virtio devices.
> > 
> > Link to these discussions? virtio-gpu is under ./hw/display
> > seems inconsistent.
> 
> I agree that it is inconsistent, but I do not know if there is a general
> consensus on this. I am fine with placing it anywhere that is deemed
> appropriate.
> 
> <87a5xkde0c.fsf@linaro.org>
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/87a5xkde0c.fsf@linaro.org/
> 
> > And you are asking Gerd to merge but
> > your MAINTAINERS patch wouldn't even let people know
> > he needs to be Cc'd on changes.
> 
> No, I didn't ask to merge this, I asked if Gerd would be the one merging it
> because I am not sure myself and wanted more information. What do you think
> should be the correct process?
> 
> --


I'd put it under audio and then you get an unambigous maintainer
to go through.