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

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

[Ulf Hansson]

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.

Cc: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it>
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a3eb6aaf5e47..af9d318cbfe0 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3784,7 +3784,9 @@ F:	fs/befs/
 
 BFQ I/O SCHEDULER
 L:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Orphan
+M:	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
+M:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
+S:	Odd Fixes
 F:	Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.rst
 F:	block/bfq-*
 
-- 
2.34.1

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

[Jens Axboe]

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.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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

[Ulf Hansson]

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

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

[Yu Kuai]

Hi,

在 2024/09/06 0:56, Ulf Hansson 写道:
> On Thu, 5 Sept 2024 at 18:49, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 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.

I appreciate the opportunity and am willing to help with maintaining
BFQ.

Thank you for considering me for this role.
Kuai

> 
> Kind regards
> Uffe
> .
> 

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

[Ulf Hansson]

On Fri, 6 Sept 2024 at 03:15, Yu Kuai <yukuai1@huaweicloud.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 在 2024/09/06 0:56, Ulf Hansson 写道:
> > On Thu, 5 Sept 2024 at 18:49, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 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.
>
> I appreciate the opportunity and am willing to help with maintaining
> BFQ.
>
> Thank you for considering me for this role.
> Kuai

That's really great news! Looking forward to seeing a patch from you
to MAINTAINERS and I will do my best as a community citizen to support
you!

Kind regards
Uffe