[PATCH net-next v2] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers

[PATCH net-next v2] 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 the maintainers to clearly indicate that more
hands are needed.

Cc: Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com>
Acked-by: 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 it is better to admit the real state of
affairs, so people would see there is a vacancy to take.

Changes in v2:
1. Add myself to CREDITS, this will conflict with:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260116175646.104445-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com/

2. Add ack

v1 was here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/bddcea45-388e-4a97-a404-c193e915eb77@animalcreek.com/
---
 CREDITS     | 4 ++++
 MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index ca75f110edb6..a5384223f536 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -2231,6 +2231,10 @@ S: Markham, Ontario
 S: L3R 8B2
 S: Canada
 
+N: Krzysztof Kozlowski
+E: krzk@kernel.org
+D: NFC network subsystem and drivers
+
 N: Christian Krafft
 D: PowerPC Cell support
 
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 v2] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:05:36 +0100 Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> +N: Krzysztof Kozlowski
> +E: krzk@kernel.org
> +D: NFC network subsystem and drivers

Thanks for all the work! Would it make sense to add the word
"maintainer" somewhere? It appears that folks who wrote this
code are not listed in CREDITS. Tho maybe in this case the word
"CULPRITS" would be more suitable than CREDITS :)

Re: [PATCH net-next v2] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 17/01/2026 23:37, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:05:36 +0100 Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> +N: Krzysztof Kozlowski
>> +E: krzk@kernel.org
>> +D: NFC network subsystem and drivers
> 
> Thanks for all the work! Would it make sense to add the word
> "maintainer" somewhere? It appears that folks who wrote this
> code are not listed in CREDITS. Tho maybe in this case the word
> "CULPRITS" would be more suitable than CREDITS :)

Yes, true. I'll send v3.

Best regards,
Krzysztof