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Message-ID: <bd5bb1f2-a8ba-4828-9d04-2e1d433ecadb@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:47:11 +0100
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
 Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>, Rob Herring
 <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
 Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
 Balakrishna Godavarthi <quic_bgodavar@...cinc.com>,
 Rocky Liao <quic_rjliao@...cinc.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
 devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] Bluetooth: MAINTAINERS: Orphan Qualcomm hci_qca

On 28/10/2025 16:43, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
> <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org> wrote:
>>
>> There are no maintainers of Qualcomm hci_qca Bluetooth driver, so make
>> it explicit that driver was orphaned and no one cares to keep it
>> maintained.  That's also indication for future removal from the Linux
>> kernel.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
>> ---
>>  MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index 8abdc0e50699..be637b9dc7c0 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -21146,7 +21146,7 @@ F:      drivers/net/wwan/qcom_bam_dmux.c
>>
>>  QUALCOMM BLUETOOTH DRIVER
>>  L:     linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
>> -S:     Maintained
>> +S:     Orphan
>>  F:     drivers/bluetooth/btqca.[ch]
>>  F:     drivers/bluetooth/btqcomsmd.c
>>  F:     drivers/bluetooth/hci_qca.c
>>
>> --
>> 2.48.1
>>
>>
> 
> Actually, I added that entry so that the arm-msm list can get Cc'ed on

Ahaha, nice :)

> patches. The fact it didn't use to, caused some regressions. I have

It also points out that drivers do not have a maintainer.

> done some work on it, so I can take it over as maintainer.
Sure, I'll send separate patch for that replacing this one. Shall I add
you to the bindings as well? All or only some?

Best regards,
Krzysztof