[PATCH v3] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers

[PATCH v3] 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 v3:
1. Clarify credits - maintainer (Jakub)

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..9e852b0fee40 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 maintainer
+
 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 v3] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:48:23 +0100 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 the maintainers to clearly indicate that more
> hands are needed.

Thanks a lot for all the review work over the years, it will be missed!

Re: [PATCH v3] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers

[patchwork-bot+netdevbpf]

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:48:23 +0100 you 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 the maintainers to clearly indicate that more
> hands are needed.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v3] nfc: MAINTAINERS: Orphan the NFC and look for new maintainers
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/a9f470594c50

You are awesome, thank you!
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