Ping -- would a block layer maintainer like to pick this up? thanks -- PMM
On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 13:54, Peter Maydell <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > --- > (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 <[email protected]> > L: [email protected] > -S: Supported > +S: Odd Fixes > F: block/vhdx* > > VDI > -- > 2.43.0
