Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Replace Steve French as CIFS maintainer

[Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>]

Thank you Paulo and Namjae for stepping up.

Acked-by: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>

On 8/18/2026 10:07 AM, Paulo Alcantara wrote:
> Unfortunately, due to health reasons, Steve French can no longer
> continue as CIFS maintainer; therefore, I am taking over the role with
> Namjae Jeon as secondary maintainer.
> 
> Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
> Cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
> Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
> Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
> Cc: Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com>
> Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
> Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>   CREDITS     | 5 +++++
>   MAINTAINERS | 7 +++----
>   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
> index 91c51c14e993..d3f60da01dad 100644
> --- a/CREDITS
> +++ b/CREDITS
> @@ -1320,6 +1320,11 @@ D: Initial GPL'd Frame Relay driver
>   D: Dynamic PPP devices
>   D: Sundry modularizations (PPP, IPX, ...) and fixes
>   
> +N: Steve French
> +E: sfrench@samba.org
> +E: smfrench@gmail.com
> +D: Author and maintainer of the cifs filesystem for many years.
> +
>   N: Bob Frey
>   E: bobf@advansys.com
>   D: AdvanSys SCSI driver
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 8014b9f8253e..55f27757dde5 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -6458,9 +6458,8 @@ F:	rust/kernel/clk.rs
>   X:	drivers/clk/clkdev.c
>   
>   COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM CLIENT (CIFS and SMB3)
> -M:	Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
> -M:	Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
> -R:	Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org> (DFS, global name space)
> +M:	Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
> +M:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
>   R:	Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> (directory leases, sparse files)
>   R:	Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com> (multichannel)
>   R:	Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com> (RDMA, smbdirect)
> @@ -6469,7 +6468,7 @@ L:	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
>   L:	samba-technical@lists.samba.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
>   S:	Supported
>   W:	https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS
> -T:	git https://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git for-next
> +T:	git https://git.manguebit.org/linux.git cifs-next
>   F:	Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/
>   F:	fs/smb/client/
>   F:	fs/smb/common/