Re: MAINTAINERS: take over vboxsf from Hans de Goede

From: Hans de Goede

Date: Mon Jun 15 2026 - 04:41:10 EST


Hi Jori, et al.,

On 14-Jun-26 21:10, Jori Koolstra wrote:
> I talked to Hans de Goede about two weeks ago in person. He expressed he
> would rather have someone else maintain vboxsf and was thinking about
> orphaning it. Since I am already doing filesystem stuff anyway, I am
> fine with doing this. (vboxsf is a thin layer between the vfs and the
> Virtual Box guest device driver).
>
> I have no major plans for vboxsf, but I do want to support passing
> physical addresses to the host; the communication protocol seems to
> allow for it and it would mean we can get rid of some kmap calls.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xxxxxxxxx>

Right, as Jori said I really haven't had time to work on this
for the last year(s) so I was considering orphaning this.

I'm happy to see someone else take this over:

Acked-by: Hans de Goede <johannes.goede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,

Hans




> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index c8d4b913f26c..0b75202eb9c6 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -28390,7 +28390,7 @@ F: include/linux/vbox_utils.h
> F: include/uapi/linux/vbox*.h
>
> VIRTUAL BOX SHARED FOLDER VFS DRIVER
> -M: Hans de Goede <hansg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +M: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> L: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> S: Maintained
> F: fs/vboxsf/*