Re: [PATCH] contrib/vhost-user-blk: Clean up deallocation of VuVirtqElement

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 18:28, Raphael Norwitz
<raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 03:57:42PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 at 06:41, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Could we use a contrib/README with an explanation what "contrib" means,
> > > and how to build and use the stuff there?
> >
> > I would rather we got rid of contrib/ entirely. Our git repo
> > should contain things we care about enough to really support
> > and believe in, in which case they should be in top level
> > directories matching what they are (eg tools/). If we don't
> > believe in these things enough to really support them, then
> > we should drop them, and let those who do care maintain them
> > as out-of-tree tools if they like.
> >
>
> I can't speak for a lot of stuff in contrib/ but I find the vhost-user
> backends like vhost-user-blk and vhost-user-scsi helpful for testing and
> development. I would like to keep maintaining those two at least.

Right, I don't mean we should just delete contrib/, but for the
things currently in it that we do care about, we should define
what their relationship to QEMU is and put them in a part of
the source tree that says what they actually are. contrib/
just means "nobody thought about it".

-- PMM