[PATCH v2] Documentation/process: Add a maintainer entry profile for KVM/arm64

[Wei-Lin Chang]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 04:33:51PM +0800, Matthias Goergens wrote:

[...]

> +Review Cadence
> +--------------
> +
> +Unless the maintainers ask for a new version sooner, allow at least a week
> +between versions of a series, and only post a new version once there has
> +been enough review to justify it.  Posting more often delays review rather
> +than speeding it up.
> +
> +Pinging a series that has had no response is fine.
> +
> +Answer reviews from bots such as Sashiko as you would any other review, even
> +if only to say that a finding is wrong.  Pre-existing problems that a bot
> +points out, and that are unrelated to the series, need not be fixed in its
> +initial posting.
> +
> +Applied patches are normally acknowledged in reply to the posting, naming the
> +branch (``next`` or ``fixes``) and the commits.  The maintainers try not to
> +change the commit IDs of applied patches, but the IDs of merge commits almost
> +always change.
> +
> +Minor problems are often fixed up by the maintainers when applying; if they
> +say "no need to resend", don't.

The second half of this is a little silly :P
What about just:

Minor problems are often fixed up by the maintainers when applying; ask
if you are unsure whether to resend.

Thanks,
Wei-Lin Chang

> +
> +Security issues
> +---------------
> +
> +Bugs that let a guest attack its host, or a nested guest attack its guest
> +hypervisor, should be reported as described in
> +Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst.
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 7a162e9..183bf34 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -14596,7 +14596,9 @@ R:	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui at huawei.com>
>  L:	linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
>  L:	kvmarm at lists.linux.dev
>  S:	Maintained
> +P:	Documentation/process/maintainer-kvm-arm64.rst
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm.git
> +F:	Documentation/process/maintainer-kvm-arm64.rst
>  F:	Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/
>  F:	Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/arm*
>  F:	arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm*
> 
> base-commit: d89e1d186ec9271bf78e62771779e9fc03bf0fc3
> -- 
> 2.56.0
>