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

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Thu Sep 05 2024 - 12:56:50 EST


On Thu, 5 Sept 2024 at 18:49, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

I would certainly appreciate it if Yu Kuai could step in and help,
that's why I cced him too.

Although, me and Linus were thinking that helping with "Odd Fixes" is
better than nothing. Ohh, well, let's see what Yu Kuai thinks, then.

Kind regards
Uffe