On 1/2/19 7:38 PM, Guoqing Jiang wrote: >> 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]. Certainly, whatever the community deems the best solution. >> 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. I have picked them up and will send them in for this merge window. -- Jens Axboe