[PATCH] Add hvc_console to MAINTAINERS

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Apr 1 10:50:57 EST 2009


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 at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> 
>> 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 at ozlabs.org
>> +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.

Guess that's the problem with trying to add a maintainers entry for something
that doesn't really have a specific maintainer.

josh



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