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=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED 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 D751CC43387 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 02:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70342073F for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 02:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729032AbfACCiZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2019 21:38:25 -0500 Received: from smtp2.provo.novell.com ([137.65.250.81]:38346 "EHLO smtp2.provo.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726382AbfACCiZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2019 21:38:25 -0500 Received: from linux-fcij.suse (prv-ext-foundry1int.gns.novell.com [137.65.251.240]) by smtp2.provo.novell.com with ESMTP (TLS encrypted); Wed, 02 Jan 2019 19:38:20 -0700 Subject: Re: Shaohua Li To: Jens Axboe , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <398a74fa-6566-8d0d-6434-e68ff3763656@kernel.dk> From: Guoqing Jiang Message-ID: Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 10:38:15 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <398a74fa-6566-8d0d-6434-e68ff3763656@kernel.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/3/19 1:13 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > Hi, > > I've got some very sad news to share with you - over Christmas, Shaohua > Li passed away after battling cancer for most of last year. It is really a sad news and a big lost for the community consider Shaohua's great contribution! > 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]. > 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. [1]. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/21/9 Regards, Guoqing