linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: changing maintainership

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Message-ID: <df68e9a1-2b98-423d-915d-58f224db6374@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:52:04 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: changing maintainership

On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 06:07:21PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Some of you already know this, but this is a general announcement.

> I will be stepping down as Linux-Next maintainer on Jan 16, 2026.  Mark
> Brown has generously volunteered to take up the challenge.  He has
> helped in the past filling in when I have been unavailable, so
> hopefully knows what he is getting in to.  I hope you will all treat
> him with the same (or better) level of respect that I have received.

> It has been a long but mostly interesting task and I hope it has been
> helpful to others.  It seems a long time since I read Andrew Morton's
> "I have a dream" email and decided that I could help out there - little
> did I know what I was heading for.

> I hope to still be around the kernel community, but just not so active.

Thanks Stephen for all your work over the many years you've been doing
-next, these are certainly going to be big shoes to try to fill.

Thanks also to Arm for agreeing to support me doing this.

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