From: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]> During the "Virtio and Vhost-User Ecosystem for Production and Automotive Systems" BoF at LPC 2026 [1] we discussed and agreed on creating a new vhost-user mailing list, mainly for changes to the specification and discussions around the protocol.
The main reason is that the vhost-user specification is also used by other VMMs and implemented by several back-ends outside the QEMU repository, whose developers often do not follow qemu-devel. Add a paragraph in the specification about the new mailing list and a dedicated MAINTAINERS entry for the vhost-user protocol, covering the specification, the QEMU front-end and libvhost-user (back-end library). [1] https://lpc.events/event/20/contributions/2365/ Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> --- MAINTAINERS | 12 ++++++++++-- docs/interop/vhost-user.rst | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index d7ec12ac39..04842adba6 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -2544,19 +2544,27 @@ M: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> R: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]> S: Supported F: hw/*/*vhost* -F: docs/interop/vhost-user* F: docs/system/devices/virtio/vhost-user* F: contrib/vhost-user-*/ F: backends/*vhost* F: include/system/vhost-user-backend.h F: include/hw/virtio/vhost* F: include/*/vhost* -F: subprojects/libvhost-user/ F: block/export/vhost-user* F: util/vhost-user-server.c F: net/vhost* F: tests/functional/x86_64/test_vhost_user_bridge.py +vhost-user protocol +M: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> +R: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]> +L: [email protected] +S: Supported +F: docs/interop/vhost-user* +F: hw/virtio/vhost-user.c +F: include/hw/virtio/vhost-user.h +F: subprojects/libvhost-user/ + vhost-shadow-virtqueue R: Eugenio Pérez <[email protected]> F: hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.* diff --git a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst index 488214a306..c31a75def3 100644 --- a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst +++ b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst @@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ conventions <backend_conventions>`. The *front-end* and *back-end* can be either a client (i.e. connecting) or server (listening) in the socket communication. +The protocol is developed and discussed on the `vhost-user mailing list +<mailto:[email protected]>`_, archived at +https://lore.kernel.org/vhost-user/. Until October 2026, when this list +was created, discussions took place on the qemu-devel mailing list, +archived at https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/. + Support for platforms other than Linux -------------------------------------- -- MST
