Re: Shaohua Li

From: Jinpu Wang
Date: Thu Jan 03 2019 - 02:39:04 EST


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> On 1/3/19 1:13 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > I've got some very sad news to share with you - over Christmas, Shaohua
> > Li passed away after battling cancer for most of last year.
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> It is really a sad news and a big lost for the community consider Shaohua's
> great contribution!

It's really a sad news, Shaohua is one of the best Chinese Linux Hackers.
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> > 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.
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> 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].

Agree!
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> > 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.
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> 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.
+1
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> [1]. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/21/9
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> Regards,
> Guoqing
Regards,
Jack Wang