Re: [linux-nfc] [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: nfc: add Krzysztof Kozlowski as maintainer

From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nfc@lists.01.org, Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-nfc] [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: nfc: add Krzysztof Kozlowski as maintainer
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 17:32:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14e78a9a-ed1a-9d7d-b854-db6d811f4622@kontron.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210512144319.30852-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>

On 12.05.21 16:43, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> The NFC subsystem is orphaned.  I am happy to spend some cycles to
> review the patches, send pull requests and in general keep the NFC
> subsystem running.

That's great, thanks!

Maybe you also want to have a look at the userspace side and talk to Mark Greer (on cc). He recently said, that he is supposed to be taking over maintenance for the neard daemon (see this thread: [1]) which currently looks like it's close to being dead (no release for several years, etc.).

I don't know much about the NFC stack and if/how people use it, but without reliable and maintained userspace tooling, the whole thing seems of little use in the long run. Qt has already dropped their neard support for Qt 6 [2], which basically means the mainline NFC stack won't be supported anymore in one of the most common application frameworks for IoT/embedded.

[1] https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/linux-nfc@lists.01.org/thread/OHD5IQHYPFUPUFYWDMNSVCBNO24M45VK/
[2] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-81824

> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> I admit I don't have big experience in NFC part but this will be nice
> opportunity to learn something new.  I am already maintainer of few
> other parts: memory controller drivers, Samsung ARM/ARM64 SoC and some
> drviers.  I have a kernel.org account and my GPG key is:
> https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit.kernel.org%2Fpub%2Fscm%2Fdocs%2Fkernel%2Fpgpkeys.git%2Ftree%2Fkeys%2F1B93437D3B41629B.asc&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cfrieder.schrempf%40kontron.de%7Cb7a843cdd3a9421a4fa908d9155456fe%7C8c9d3c973fd941c8a2b1646f3942daf1%7C0%7C0%7C637564274699221204%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=dJy3BljqfnZfwekCSGDdUy2kNcr7XxoDUUXJJwydq9c%3D&amp;reserved=0
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index cc81667e8bab..adc6cbe29f78 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -12899,8 +12899,9 @@ F:	include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h
>  F:	net/ipv4/nexthop.c
>  
>  NFC SUBSYSTEM
> +M:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>
>  L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
> -S:	Orphan
> +S:	Maintained
>  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/
>  F:	drivers/nfc/
>  F:	include/linux/platform_data/nfcmrvl.h
> 