[PATCH net-next] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers

[PATCH net-next] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

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 maintainers to clearly indicate that more hands
are needed.

Cc: Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>

---

One might argue that poor/non-responsive maintainer is better than no
maintainer, but I think better to admit that real state of affairs, so
people would see there is vacancy to take.
---
 MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 6edc423933a7..e98855ef1899 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -18523,9 +18523,8 @@ F:	include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h
 F:	net/ipv4/nexthop.c
 
 NFC SUBSYSTEM
-M:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/
 F:	drivers/nfc/
 F:	include/net/nfc/
-- 
2.51.0

Re: [PATCH net-next] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers

[Mark Greer]

On 1/9/26 3:11 AM, 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 maintainers to clearly indicate that more hands
> are needed.
>
> Cc: Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>

Acked-by: Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com>

> ---
>
> One might argue that poor/non-responsive maintainer is better than no
> maintainer, but I think better to admit that real state of affairs, so
> people would see there is vacancy to take.
> ---

Thank you so much for the work you've done on this Krzysztof. I was
supposed to help you with some of this but I didn't. I'm pretty busy
too so I'm not sure when this situation will improve for me or in
general. Maybe someone will step up.

Mark
--

Re: [PATCH net-next] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 15/01/2026 16:36, Mark Greer wrote:
> On 1/9/26 3:11 AM, 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 maintainers to clearly indicate that more hands
>> are needed.
>>
>> Cc: Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com>
> 
>> ---
>>
>> One might argue that poor/non-responsive maintainer is better than no
>> maintainer, but I think better to admit that real state of affairs, so
>> people would see there is vacancy to take.
>> ---
> 
> Thank you so much for the work you've done on this Krzysztof. I was
> supposed to help you with some of this but I didn't. I'm pretty busy
> too so I'm not sure when this situation will improve for me or in
> general. Maybe someone will step up.

No worries. If you ever want to come back to taking care about NFC, the
position waits. :)

Best regards,
Krzysztof