* Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update CXL, NVDIMM, DAX, and others for djbw
2026-11-03 20:15 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update CXL, NVDIMM, DAX, and others for djbw Dave Jiang
@ 2026-11-03 20:48 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2026-11-03 22:15 ` Verma, Vishal L
` (2 subsequent siblings)
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Davidlohr Bueso @ 2026-11-03 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Jiang
Cc: linux-cxl, nvdimm, linux-crypto, dmaengine, linux-kernel,
Alison Schofield, Vishal Verma, Matthew Wilcox, Jan Kara,
Jonathan Cameron, Vinod Koul, Frank Li
On Tue, 03 Nov 2026, Dave Jiang wrote:
>Dan is no longer with us. Removing entries in MAINTAINERS to prevent
>people from keep emailing his address.
>
>async_tx will be essentially orphaned. There has been discussion of
>deprecation for the feature on the dmaengine mailing list.
>
>fsdax will no longer have a maintainer. But there are reviewers still
>and Alison Schofield will continue to wrangle patches for DAX overall.
>
>Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
>Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
>Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
>Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
>Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
>Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
>Cc: Frank Li <Frank.Li@kernel.org>
>Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Thanks for sending this.
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
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2026-11-03 20:15 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update CXL, NVDIMM, DAX, and others for djbw Dave Jiang
2026-11-03 20:48 ` Davidlohr Bueso
@ 2026-11-03 22:15 ` Verma, Vishal L
2026-11-04 3:06 ` Alison Schofield
2026-11-04 15:22 ` Frank Li
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Verma, Vishal L @ 2026-11-03 22:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dmaengine, Jiang, Dave, linux-cxl, nvdimm, linux-kernel, linux-crypto
Cc: Frank.Li, Schofield, Alison, jack, willy, dave, jic23, vkoul
On Tue, 2026-11-03 at 13:15 -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
> Dan is no longer with us. Removing entries in MAINTAINERS to prevent
> people from keep emailing his address.
>
> async_tx will be essentially orphaned. There has been discussion of
> deprecation for the feature on the dmaengine mailing list.
>
> fsdax will no longer have a maintainer. But there are reviewers still
> and Alison Schofield will continue to wrangle patches for DAX
> overall.
>
> Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
> Cc: Frank Li <Frank.Li@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>
Acked-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
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* Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update CXL, NVDIMM, DAX, and others for djbw
2026-11-03 20:15 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update CXL, NVDIMM, DAX, and others for djbw Dave Jiang
2026-11-03 20:48 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2026-11-03 22:15 ` Verma, Vishal L
@ 2026-11-04 3:06 ` Alison Schofield
2026-11-04 15:22 ` Frank Li
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alison Schofield @ 2026-11-04 3:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Jiang
Cc: linux-cxl, nvdimm, linux-crypto, dmaengine, linux-kernel,
Vishal Verma, Matthew Wilcox, Jan Kara, Davidlohr Bueso,
Jonathan Cameron, Vinod Koul, Frank Li
On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 01:15:47PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
> Dan is no longer with us. Removing entries in MAINTAINERS to prevent
> people from keep emailing his address.
>
> async_tx will be essentially orphaned. There has been discussion of
> deprecation for the feature on the dmaengine mailing list.
>
> fsdax will no longer have a maintainer. But there are reviewers still
> and Alison Schofield will continue to wrangle patches for DAX overall.
>
> Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
> Cc: Frank Li <Frank.Li@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
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* Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update CXL, NVDIMM, DAX, and others for djbw
2026-11-03 20:15 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update CXL, NVDIMM, DAX, and others for djbw Dave Jiang
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
2026-11-04 3:06 ` Alison Schofield
@ 2026-11-04 15:22 ` Frank Li
2026-11-04 15:54 ` Dave Jiang
3 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Frank Li @ 2026-11-04 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Jiang
Cc: linux-cxl, nvdimm, linux-crypto, dmaengine, linux-kernel,
Alison Schofield, Vishal Verma, Matthew Wilcox, Jan Kara,
Davidlohr Bueso, Jonathan Cameron, Vinod Koul, Frank Li
On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 01:15:47PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
> Dan is no longer with us. Removing entries in MAINTAINERS to prevent
> people from keep emailing his address.
>
> async_tx will be essentially orphaned. There has been discussion of
> deprecation for the feature on the dmaengine mailing list.
>
> fsdax will no longer have a maintainer. But there are reviewers still
> and Alison Schofield will continue to wrangle patches for DAX overall.
>
> Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
> Cc: Frank Li <Frank.Li@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>
> ---
> For FSDAX, Jan or Willy if you guys want to step up and be the
> maintainer please let me know and I'll update the entry. Thanks.
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 12 ++----------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 14e4daf8ea8a..32b86033b5f1 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -4285,8 +4285,7 @@ S: Maintained
> F: crypto/rsa*
>
> ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFERS/TRANSFORMS (IOAT) API
> -R: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
> -S: Odd fixes
> +S: Orphan
Can you put my name here now until it is full removed. I have some cleanup
patch need be merged in case take more time to remove it totally.
Frank
> W: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xscaleiop
> F: Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.rst
> F: crypto/async_tx/
> @@ -6715,7 +6714,6 @@ M: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> M: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> M: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
> R: Ira Weiny <iweiny@kernel.org>
> R: Li Ming <ming.li@zohomail.com>
> R: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
> @@ -7610,7 +7608,6 @@ S: Maintained
> F: scripts/dev-needs.sh
>
> DEVICE DIRECT ACCESS (DAX)
> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
> M: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> M: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> @@ -10304,12 +10301,11 @@ F: include/linux/fcntl.h
> F: include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>
> FILESYSTEM DIRECT ACCESS (DAX)
> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
> R: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> R: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> L: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> L: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
> -S: Supported
> +S: Odd Fixes
> F: fs/dax.c
> F: include/linux/dax.h
> F: include/trace/events/fs_dax.h
> @@ -13444,7 +13440,6 @@ F: drivers/platform/x86/intel/hid.c
>
> INTEL I/OAT DMA DRIVER
> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> -R: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
> L: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org
> S: Supported
> Q: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-dmaengine/list/
> @@ -15267,7 +15262,6 @@ K: libie
>
> LIBNVDIMM BTT: BLOCK TRANSLATION TABLE
> M: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> M: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> L: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
> @@ -15277,7 +15271,6 @@ P: Documentation/nvdimm/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
> F: drivers/nvdimm/btt*
>
> LIBNVDIMM PMEM: PERSISTENT MEMORY DRIVER
> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
> M: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> M: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> @@ -15296,7 +15289,6 @@ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pmem/pmem-region.yaml
> F: drivers/nvdimm/of_pmem.c
>
> LIBNVDIMM: NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE SUBSYSTEM
> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
> M: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> M: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
>
> base-commit: abf8c33470f78e2226ee3dcdc69004660020ab47
> --
> 2.54.0
>
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2026-11-04 15:22 ` Frank Li
@ 2026-11-04 15:54 ` Dave Jiang
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dave Jiang @ 2026-11-04 15:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frank Li
Cc: linux-cxl, nvdimm, linux-crypto, dmaengine, linux-kernel,
Alison Schofield, Vishal Verma, Matthew Wilcox, Jan Kara,
Davidlohr Bueso, Jonathan Cameron, Vinod Koul, Frank Li
On 11/4/26 8:22 AM, Frank Li wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 01:15:47PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
>> Dan is no longer with us. Removing entries in MAINTAINERS to prevent
>> people from keep emailing his address.
>>
>> async_tx will be essentially orphaned. There has been discussion of
>> deprecation for the feature on the dmaengine mailing list.
>>
>> fsdax will no longer have a maintainer. But there are reviewers still
>> and Alison Schofield will continue to wrangle patches for DAX overall.
>>
>> Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
>> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
>> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
>> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
>> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Frank Li <Frank.Li@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>>
>> ---
>> For FSDAX, Jan or Willy if you guys want to step up and be the
>> maintainer please let me know and I'll update the entry. Thanks.
>> ---
>> MAINTAINERS | 12 ++----------
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index 14e4daf8ea8a..32b86033b5f1 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -4285,8 +4285,7 @@ S: Maintained
>> F: crypto/rsa*
>>
>> ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFERS/TRANSFORMS (IOAT) API
>> -R: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>> -S: Odd fixes
>> +S: Orphan
>
> Can you put my name here now until it is full removed. I have some cleanup
> patch need be merged in case take more time to remove it totally.
Thanks for stepping up Frank. Will do.
DJ
>
> Frank
>
>> W: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xscaleiop
>> F: Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.rst
>> F: crypto/async_tx/
>> @@ -6715,7 +6714,6 @@ M: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
>> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>> M: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
>> M: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>> R: Ira Weiny <iweiny@kernel.org>
>> R: Li Ming <ming.li@zohomail.com>
>> R: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
>> @@ -7610,7 +7608,6 @@ S: Maintained
>> F: scripts/dev-needs.sh
>>
>> DEVICE DIRECT ACCESS (DAX)
>> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>> M: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>> M: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
>> @@ -10304,12 +10301,11 @@ F: include/linux/fcntl.h
>> F: include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>>
>> FILESYSTEM DIRECT ACCESS (DAX)
>> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>> R: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
>> R: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
>> L: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
>> L: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
>> -S: Supported
>> +S: Odd Fixes
>> F: fs/dax.c
>> F: include/linux/dax.h
>> F: include/trace/events/fs_dax.h
>> @@ -13444,7 +13440,6 @@ F: drivers/platform/x86/intel/hid.c
>>
>> INTEL I/OAT DMA DRIVER
>> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>> -R: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>> L: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org
>> S: Supported
>> Q: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-dmaengine/list/
>> @@ -15267,7 +15262,6 @@ K: libie
>>
>> LIBNVDIMM BTT: BLOCK TRANSLATION TABLE
>> M: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>> M: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
>> L: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
>> @@ -15277,7 +15271,6 @@ P: Documentation/nvdimm/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
>> F: drivers/nvdimm/btt*
>>
>> LIBNVDIMM PMEM: PERSISTENT MEMORY DRIVER
>> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>> M: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>> M: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
>> @@ -15296,7 +15289,6 @@ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pmem/pmem-region.yaml
>> F: drivers/nvdimm/of_pmem.c
>>
>> LIBNVDIMM: NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE SUBSYSTEM
>> -M: Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>> M: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>> M: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>> M: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
>>
>> base-commit: abf8c33470f78e2226ee3dcdc69004660020ab47
>> --
>> 2.54.0
>>
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