Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Paulo Alcantara as an SMBDIRECT co-maintainer

From: ChenXiaoSong

Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 01:49:12 EST


Should we add a repository URL for SMBDIRECT?

On 8/26/26 23:01, Namjae Jeon wrote:
Steve French passed away recently. He was a long-time maintainer
of Linux's SMB support and will be greatly missed.

Add Paulo Alcantara as a co-maintainer of SMBDIRECT alongside
Namjae Jeon.

Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e05570c393c5..7e1d14406619 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -25105,10 +25105,9 @@ F: Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Smack.rst
F: security/smack/
SMBDIRECT (RDMA Stream Transport with Read/Write-Offload, MS-SMBD)
-M: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
-M: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
M: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx>
M: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx>
+M: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
R: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx>
R: Tom Talpey <tom@xxxxxxxxxx>
L: linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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