Re: [PATCH 01/12] Bluetooth: MAINTAINERS: Orphan Qualcomm hci_qca

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 28/10/2025 16:43, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
> <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> -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