From: Hans de Goede <hans@hansg.org>
To: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: take over vboxsf from Hans de Goede
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:34:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <afece0e2-84cb-4240-8722-0f8453dbd40a@hansg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260614191040.3007723-1-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Hi Jori, et al.,
On 14-Jun-26 21:10, Jori Koolstra wrote:
> I talked to Hans de Goede about two weeks ago in person. He expressed he
> would rather have someone else maintain vboxsf and was thinking about
> orphaning it. Since I am already doing filesystem stuff anyway, I am
> fine with doing this. (vboxsf is a thin layer between the vfs and the
> Virtual Box guest device driver).
>
> I have no major plans for vboxsf, but I do want to support passing
> physical addresses to the host; the communication protocol seems to
> allow for it and it would mean we can get rid of some kmap calls.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Right, as Jori said I really haven't had time to work on this
for the last year(s) so I was considering orphaning this.
I'm happy to see someone else take this over:
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <johannes.goede@oss.qualcomm.com>
Regards,
Hans
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index c8d4b913f26c..0b75202eb9c6 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -28390,7 +28390,7 @@ F: include/linux/vbox_utils.h
> F: include/uapi/linux/vbox*.h
>
> VIRTUAL BOX SHARED FOLDER VFS DRIVER
> -M: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
> +M: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
> L: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> S: Maintained
> F: fs/vboxsf/*
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-15 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-14 19:10 Jori Koolstra
2026-06-14 19:11 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-06-14 20:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-06-19 9:36 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-06-15 8:34 ` Hans de Goede [this message]
2026-06-17 13:00 ` Christian Brauner
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