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Message-ID: <CAMRc=MdL4yqY2em5myZO106FEzRF1RQuYroc74Qt_iHm-KBn-A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:48:36 +0100
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
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 Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> 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?
>

I'm more familiar with the C part but sure, why not.

Bart