Re: Shaohua Li

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 1/2/19 7:38 PM, Guoqing Jiang wrote:
>> As you know, Shaohua acted as the maintainer for md. He remained
>> dedicated to that through the difficult times. With his passing, we
>> obviously have a void that needs to be filled.
> 
> It is better if there is a small team to maintain md in future since nobody
> have broad/deep knowledge as Neil or Shaohua, also people in the team
> can cover/backup each other, see [1].

Certainly, whatever the community deems the best solution.

>> For now, I'll act as interim maintainer for md until we can find a good
>> permanent solution. I'll queue up reviewed patches in a separate branch,
>> in the block tree, and help review fixes. I'm subscribed to linux-raid,
>> but please do CC me as well.
> 
> Thanks, I think there are some patches in shli/md/for-next which supposed
> to be merge to 4.21, could you please help to merge them to your branch?
> And I suppose you will send a patch to CREDITS for Shaohua.

I have picked them up and will send them in for this merge window.

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Jens Axboe