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

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

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
patches. The fact it didn't use to, caused some regressions. I have
done some work on it, so I can take it over as maintainer.

Bart