[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Replace Steve French as CIFS maintainer

Paulo Alcantara pc at manguebit.org
Tue Aug 18 14:07:38 UTC 2026


Unfortunately, due to health reasons, Steve French can no longer
continue as CIFS maintainer; therefore, I am taking over the role with
Namjae Jeon as secondary maintainer.

Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc at manguebit.org>
Cc: Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench at samba.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com>
Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad at microsoft.com>
Cc: Tom Talpey <tom at talpey.com>
Cc: Bharath SM <bharathsm at microsoft.com>
Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Cc: linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
---
 CREDITS     | 5 +++++
 MAINTAINERS | 7 +++----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 91c51c14e993..d3f60da01dad 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -1320,6 +1320,11 @@ D: Initial GPL'd Frame Relay driver
 D: Dynamic PPP devices
 D: Sundry modularizations (PPP, IPX, ...) and fixes
 
+N: Steve French
+E: sfrench at samba.org
+E: smfrench at gmail.com
+D: Author and maintainer of the cifs filesystem for many years.
+
 N: Bob Frey
 E: bobf at advansys.com
 D: AdvanSys SCSI driver
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 8014b9f8253e..55f27757dde5 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6458,9 +6458,8 @@ F:	rust/kernel/clk.rs
 X:	drivers/clk/clkdev.c
 
 COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM CLIENT (CIFS and SMB3)
-M:	Steve French <sfrench at samba.org>
-M:	Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
-R:	Paulo Alcantara <pc at manguebit.org> (DFS, global name space)
+M:	Paulo Alcantara <pc at manguebit.org>
+M:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon at kernel.org>
 R:	Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com> (directory leases, sparse files)
 R:	Shyam Prasad N <sprasad at microsoft.com> (multichannel)
 R:	Tom Talpey <tom at talpey.com> (RDMA, smbdirect)
@@ -6469,7 +6468,7 @@ L:	linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
 L:	samba-technical at lists.samba.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
 S:	Supported
 W:	https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS
-T:	git https://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git for-next
+T:	git https://git.manguebit.org/linux.git cifs-next
 F:	Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/
 F:	fs/smb/client/
 F:	fs/smb/common/
-- 
2.55.0




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