Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update CXL, NVDIMM, DAX, and others for djbw

[Frank Li <Frank.li@oss.nxp.com>]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 01:15:47PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
> Dan is no longer with us. Removing entries in MAINTAINERS to prevent
> people from keep emailing his address.
>
> async_tx will be essentially orphaned. There has been discussion of
> deprecation for the feature on the dmaengine mailing list.
>
> fsdax will no longer have a maintainer. But there are reviewers still
> and Alison Schofield will continue to wrangle patches for DAX overall.
>
> Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
> Cc: Frank Li <Frank.Li@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>
> ---
> For FSDAX, Jan or Willy if you guys want to step up and be the
> maintainer please let me know and I'll update the entry. Thanks.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 12 ++----------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 14e4daf8ea8a..32b86033b5f1 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -4285,8 +4285,7 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	crypto/rsa*
>
>  ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFERS/TRANSFORMS (IOAT) API
> -R:	Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
> -S:	Odd fixes
> +S:	Orphan

Can you put my name here now until it is full removed. I have some cleanup
patch need be merged in case take more time to remove it totally.

Frank

>  W:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/xscaleiop
>  F:	Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.rst
>  F:	crypto/async_tx/
> @@ -6715,7 +6714,6 @@ M:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
>  M:	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>  M:	Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
>  M:	Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> -M:	Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>  R:	Ira Weiny <iweiny@kernel.org>
>  R:	Li Ming <ming.li@zohomail.com>
>  R:	Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
> @@ -7610,7 +7608,6 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	scripts/dev-needs.sh
>
>  DEVICE DIRECT ACCESS (DAX)
> -M:	Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>  M:	Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>  M:	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>  M:	Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> @@ -10304,12 +10301,11 @@ F:	include/linux/fcntl.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>
>  FILESYSTEM DIRECT ACCESS (DAX)
> -M:	Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>  R:	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
>  R:	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
>  L:	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
>  L:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
> -S:	Supported
> +S:	Odd Fixes
>  F:	fs/dax.c
>  F:	include/linux/dax.h
>  F:	include/trace/events/fs_dax.h
> @@ -13444,7 +13440,6 @@ F:	drivers/platform/x86/intel/hid.c
>
>  INTEL I/OAT DMA DRIVER
>  M:	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> -R:	Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>  L:	dmaengine@vger.kernel.org
>  S:	Supported
>  Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-dmaengine/list/
> @@ -15267,7 +15262,6 @@ K:	libie
>
>  LIBNVDIMM BTT: BLOCK TRANSLATION TABLE
>  M:	Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
> -M:	Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>  M:	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>  M:	Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
>  L:	nvdimm@lists.linux.dev
> @@ -15277,7 +15271,6 @@ P:	Documentation/nvdimm/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
>  F:	drivers/nvdimm/btt*
>
>  LIBNVDIMM PMEM: PERSISTENT MEMORY DRIVER
> -M:	Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>  M:	Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>  M:	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>  M:	Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> @@ -15296,7 +15289,6 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pmem/pmem-region.yaml
>  F:	drivers/nvdimm/of_pmem.c
>
>  LIBNVDIMM: NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE SUBSYSTEM
> -M:	Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
>  M:	Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
>  M:	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
>  M:	Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
>
> base-commit: abf8c33470f78e2226ee3dcdc69004660020ab47
> --
> 2.54.0
>