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Acked-by: Tom Talpey 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 > Reviewed-by: David Howells > Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon > Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara > Cc: Steve French > Cc: Steve French > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Cc: Al Viro > Cc: Christian Brauner > Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg > Cc: Shyam Prasad N > Cc: Tom Talpey > Cc: Bharath SM > 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 > -M: Steve French > -R: Paulo Alcantara (DFS, global name space) > +M: Paulo Alcantara > +M: Namjae Jeon > R: Ronnie Sahlberg (directory leases, sparse files) > R: Shyam Prasad N (multichannel) > R: Tom Talpey (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/