linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers

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Message-ID: <20260120160719.19f9a5e8@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:07:19 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@....qualcomm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman
 <horms@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Mark Greer <mgreer@...malcreek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new
 maintainers

On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:48:23 +0100 Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> NFC stack in Linux is in poor shape, with several bugs being discovered
> last years via fuzzing, not much new development happening and limited
> review and testing.  It requires some more effort than drive-by reviews
> I have been offering last one or two years.
> 
> I don't have much time nor business interests to keep looking at NFC,
> so let's drop me from the maintainers to clearly indicate that more
> hands are needed.

Thanks a lot for all the review work over the years, it will be missed!