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

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