Re: MAINTAINERS: take over vboxsf from Hans de Goede

From: Christian Brauner

Date: Wed Jun 17 2026 - 09:03:37 EST


On Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:10:40 +0200, 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.
>
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

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https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/a257368561f0