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

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

[Peter Maydell]

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(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 406cef88f0c..a3a1ce5cc61 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4043,7 +4043,7 @@ F: block/rbd.c
 VHDX
 M: Jeff Cody <codyprime@gmail.com>
 L: qemu-block@nongnu.org
-S: Supported
+S: Odd Fixes
 F: block/vhdx*
 
 VDI
-- 
2.43.0

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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

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>

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

[Peter Maydell]

Ping -- would a block layer maintainer like to pick this up?

thanks
-- PMM

On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 13:54, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> 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(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 406cef88f0c..a3a1ce5cc61 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -4043,7 +4043,7 @@ F: block/rbd.c
>  VHDX
>  M: Jeff Cody <codyprime@gmail.com>
>  L: qemu-block@nongnu.org
> -S: Supported
> +S: Odd Fixes
>  F: block/vhdx*
>
>  VDI
> --
> 2.43.0

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

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 23.10.2025 um 15:20 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben:
> Ping -- would a block layer maintainer like to pick this up?

Sure. (CC would have helped me to see it sooner.)

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin