From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_MED,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC25C43387 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 16:45:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC8F2070D for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 16:45:00 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel-dk.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.i=@kernel-dk.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.b="NShKpzrN" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732372AbfACQo7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:44:59 -0500 Received: from mail-it1-f177.google.com ([209.85.166.177]:53595 "EHLO mail-it1-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731280AbfACQo5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:44:57 -0500 Received: by mail-it1-f177.google.com with SMTP id g85so46031713ita.3 for ; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 08:44:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel-dk.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QCaOzSC26IxHVRPOOmvE8nQmVr09QUJSi7iOSihTUFw=; b=NShKpzrNABTm2XVUbGF/tpofB9klWZ6DweHMfVY9QCUo1YPULL43z5dVEwi8U3cEzQ 2YE2b5TKZ9gX1FFBcwA8uBkLFDgsffbaeuMgsu2FUU2iz2liy6/1nGLZWkkb5mdA8ySI +TRwfbk7VqRLL7mUWN1SwBV3fSfySb5KdtjSVUxZT59i0NLeNU+fab/9tMdg+MDA1YxG jkjQL/SKW+kXaSqyYgj7YdAFL06Iexg0anNHWtDtpLK9I7N2r4Dfli5IVBMUOq+XyPUx /OUzZ4rbAdu8ElUTdCPfbPGnCD83ykSuEHK12dWlvrIVDtzYqEHBGqu1mW3oxfsoYm1R B78Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=QCaOzSC26IxHVRPOOmvE8nQmVr09QUJSi7iOSihTUFw=; b=RZG/0dnU8Uan1sPfcyuvnTADMw+plpCRH9zSaduOEdK4zTdj4Otfg34O/Zu48v01S5 qDBsOFHBBdKU8oNBXmDbGZrMULVGMThgTfnp1SAYQ7e5/WtAweYt4eaen5cv8K/5O5yw wvpBlvxQINSdgbcVNZmiOEhvdgTYNVRbmcIL01aNzIUvOzooKGWDntc72drqsSn85Xq+ v2fGlkWc35sqTm8PIyxCe5jw5GuHRproMxDYe8ECDmnHRNqiZPUO6RaCy0vO2OHdjrn6 AnrmTQqxfOqmsX0MDtZGFG4xKA3p67TPLdSwAlZ0d8oKNWcu1WnWICPVJGkSXFklzdev wy9A== X-Gm-Message-State: AA+aEWaWbIOiCIZYVfCeTNKgbB6IG8R6pOodcbbRZoACvyzb8PFv/npJ TUzlPOLEQ/zPIp7UoVTew5qKNU+GoDtDjQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AFSGD/XGbIbrE1AwqZL/StD7fr2lS9IHCMlpW7aT/hRJAt80KdaPOMiHMnyElxGtFmAfbtN+w30elA== X-Received: by 2002:a02:5618:: with SMTP id o24mr33782959jab.111.1546533895445; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 08:44:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.56] ([216.160.245.98]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d3sm24037955itc.40.2019.01.03.08.44.54 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 03 Jan 2019 08:44:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Shaohua Li To: Guoqing Jiang , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <398a74fa-6566-8d0d-6434-e68ff3763656@kernel.dk> From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: <86273f7b-f036-cb31-1da1-e3d65e593ee6@kernel.dk> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 09:44:53 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Jens Axboe