Re: MAINTAINERS entries that aren't S: Orphan but maybe should be

[Guenter Roeck]

On 5/6/26 16:40, Alistair Francis wrote:

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote:

I'm cc'ing reviewers and lists mentioned below, and frequent
contributors to MAINTAINERS.

There are a number of MAINTAINERS entries with S: other than "Orphan"
without M:

     $ awk '/^M: / { m++ } /^S: / { s=$2 } /^$/ && s { if (!m && s != "Orphan") print t; m=0; s=""; 
getline; t=FILENAME ":" FNR ": " $0; next }' MAINTAINERS
     MAINTAINERS:1736: Microchip PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit

Conor, Sebastian and Guenter, are you still using the Microchip
PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit? We currently don't have a maintainer for it.
I'm tempted to deprecate it, as I thought it didn't really work
anyway, but I wasn't sure.

All I do is to run a couple of Linux kernel boot tests with it.
The idea is to test the Linux kernel, not the qemu emulation.
I neither have time to maintain this, nor the hardware to
cross-check it. It is ok with me to deprecate it, even more so
if it doesn't work well.

Oh, and I just noticed that I carry a downstream patch to make it
boot with Linux without backtraces. Ultimately that suggests that
no one but me is really using it. Another reason to deprecate it.

Thanks,
Guenter

So is anyone using it and is anyone willing to maintain it?

     MAINTAINERS:1792: SH4 Machines
     MAINTAINERS:2022: Machine core
     MAINTAINERS:2226: ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER
     MAINTAINERS:2555: vhost-user-scmi
     MAINTAINERS:2862: XIVE
     MAINTAINERS:2872: Renesas peripherals
     MAINTAINERS:3165: CheckPoint and Restart (CPR)
     MAINTAINERS:3719: Checkpatch
     MAINTAINERS:3746: RDMA Migration
     MAINTAINERS:3894: Record/replay
     MAINTAINERS:4029: OpenSBI Firmware

I'll pickup this one

Alistair