Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: make myself the maintainer of the Qualcomm QCE driver

From: Herbert Xu

Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 04:57:11 EST


On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 02:46:56PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> Qualcomm wants to keep supporting and extending the crypto engine driver.
> Thara has not been active for many months, so change the maintainer to
> myself and upgrade the driver to Supported.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I've considered also marking the driver as BROKEN but decided not to.
> Next week I plan to address the failing self tests as well as go through
> all the ciphers it provides and remove ones that are known to be weak or
> deprecated.
>
> Regarding the series that proposed to remove this[1], let this be the
> official objection. Qualcomm's clients use this IP, we have support for
> new features planned and intend to refactor it significantly.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260523-delete-qce-v1-0-86105cd7f406@xxxxxxxxx/
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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