Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Mark VHDX block driver as "Odd Fixes"

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 2/10/25 14:54, Peter Maydell wrote:
> In 2018 (in commit 5f5246b6b) Jeff Cody stepped down as block
> maintainer, but left himself as maintainer for VHDX and with a status
> of "Supported", with the rationale:
> 
>      For VHDX, added my personal email address as a maintainer, as I can
>      answer questions or send the occassional bug fix.  Leaving it as
>      'Supported', instead of 'Odd Fixes', because I think the rest of the
>      block layer maintainers and developers will upkeep it as well, if
>      needed.
> 
> However, today the way we treat subsystems which are only maintained
> under the general umbrella of a wider system is usually to mark them
> as "Odd Fixes".  The vhdx.c code has had no commits which aren't a
> part of more general refactoring changes since 2020, and Jeff himself
> hasn't been active on qemu-devel since 2018, so this seems also to be
> how we've handled the code in practice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> (Jeff, I've left your email in under the M: line, but we could remove
> it if you'd prefer.)
> 
>   MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>