linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Move the BFQ io scheduler to Odd Fixes state

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Message-ID: <b748a4aa-504b-4e58-9988-170e462401eb@kernel.dk>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 10:49:55 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
 Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>, Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>,
 Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...more.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Move the BFQ io scheduler to Odd Fixes state

On 9/5/24 10:43 AM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> To not give up entirely on maintenance of BFQ, add myself and Linus Walleij
> as maintainers for BFQ. Although, as both of us has limited bandwidth for
> this, let's reflect that by changing the state to Odd Fixes. If there are
> anybody else that would be interested to help with maintenance of BFQ,
> please let us know.

We don't add maintainers that haven't actually worked on the code. As it
so happens, we already have a good candidate for this, who knows the
block layer code and does many fixes there, Yu Kuai. And they recently
sent in real fixes too. So that's likely the way the needle will swing.

-- 
Jens Axboe