linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 37
Total messages: 372 (224 human, 148 CI/bot)
linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 38
20 September 2026
Total messages: 418 (271 human, 147 CI/bot)
Note: Of the 418 messages, 271 are human-generated, 147 are CI/bot (bluez.test.bot: 90, patchwork-bot+bluetooth: 30, BluezTestBot: 15, github-actions[bot]: 5, Sasha Levin: 3, kernel test robot: 2, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf: 1, syzbot: 1).
Summary
During week 38 (14 - 20 September 2026) the linux-bluetooth mailing list carried 418 messages, 271 from contributors and 147 from CI and bots. There were 97 human-initiated threads: 57 kernel patch series, 34 BlueZ userspace series and 6 discussions or reports. 30 patches were applied via patchwork and 20 commits were pushed to bluez repositories. The most active contributor was Luiz Augusto von Dentz (Intel) with 66 messages. 11 series went through more than one revision during the week.
Key Patch Series & Discussions
Kernel Patches
BlueZ Userspace Patches
Discussions & Bug Reports
| Topic | From | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| [bug report] Bluetooth: btusb: Add support for Qualcomm multi-subsystem QCC2072 | Dan Carpenter | 6 messages |
| [REGRESSION] btusb: ASUS USB-BT540/BT600 IDs backported without, RTL8761CUV supp… | ra.prism | 3 messages |
| MAINTAINERS: add entry for NXP wireless Bluetooth driver | alex.zhou | 2 messages |
| [GIT PULL] bluetooth 2026-09-15 | Luiz Augusto von Dentz | 2 messages |
| Bonded LE HID device cannot reconnect while any process holds a discovery sessio… | Peter Lemken | 1 message |
| Bluetooth: btintel: validate DDC record lengths | Sai Teja Aluvala | 1 message |
Series Revised This Week
Top Contributors (by message count)
| Contributor | Affiliation | Messages |
|---|---|---|
| Luiz Augusto von Dentz | Intel | 66 |
| Pauli Virtanen | Independent | 28 |
| Zijun Hu | Qualcomm | 24 |
| dt | Independent | 19 |
| Yanli Yang | Independent | 12 |
| Hui Peng | Independent | 11 |
| Lawrence Lee | Independent | 8 |
| Mark Brown | Independent | 8 |
| Aldo Ariel Panzardo | Independent | 7 |
| Ravindra | Intel | 6 |
Merged to master (BlueZ & bluetooth-next)
Applied to bluetooth-next (kernel, via patchwork notifications)
- Bluetooth: btmtksdio: Fix spurious ownership error logs
- Bluetooth: ISO: Fix parent socket leak in iso_conn_ready()
- Bluetooth: btmtksdio: Fix PM runtime reference leak in shutdown
- Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: fix off-by-one bounds check in RX submit
- Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid socket lock inversion in listener cleanup
- Bluetooth: btmtk: firmware debug event routing and WMT FUNC_CTRL statu
- Bluetooth: keep dst_type with dst when reusing an LE connection
- Bluetooth: virtio_bt: Fix probe error cleanup
- Bluetooth: SMP: reject Security Request over BR/EDR
- Bluetooth: mgmt: Dequeue pending mesh_send_sync entries on cancel
- Bluetooth: hci_sock: reject out-of-range OCF values
- Bluetooth: ISO: balance the parent hold in hci_bind_bis()
- Bluetooth: L2CAP: validate frame length before control and FCS access
- Bluetooth: hci_conn: fix CIS hold ownership on reuse
- Bluetooth: mgmt: fix race in read_unconf_index_list()
- Bluetooth: hci_sock: validate event length before filtering
Applied to BlueZ (via patchwork notifications)
- test-runner: use virtio-fs by default, functional test speedup
- doc: test-runner: document the virtual machine architecture
- test: functional: add mpris-proxy end-to-end tests
- test-runner: Enable interrupt remapping for PCIe passthrough
- doc/test-functional: Document PCIe controller passthrough
- Cover a BAP stream to a coordinated set
- MAINTAINERS: add entry for NXP wireless Bluetooth driver
- tools/l2cap-tester: test closing sockets with ECRED defer
- emulator: bthost: add function for sending raw L2CAP sig commands
- gatt-server: Check prepare write length before reallocating
- monitor: Reference request frames on responses
- device: Fix resolving a coordinated set over Secure Connections
- shared/bap: Skip local metadata Config callbacks
- doc/qualification: Add ASCS PICS file
Pushed to bluez repositories
- mesh: Fix Command Disallowed on random address cha…
- doc: test-runner: document the virtual machine arc…
- Add instructions for localci usage
- tools/test-runner: replace alloca() based argv setup
- doc/test-functional: Document PCIe controller pass…
- test-runner: Enable interrupt remapping for PCIe p…
- action: change action to pass –device /dev/kvm to…
- test: functional: add mpris-proxy BR/EDR test cases
- shared/bass: add a ready callback
- monitor: Route the decoding output through a singl…
- gatt-server: Check prepare write length before rea…
- adapter: remove the devices from the list before f…
- monitor/analyze: Free the channel latency plots
- monitor: Add constants for CTE related commands
- adapter: Set Audio service class bit for A2DP sink
- mgmt: Add defines for the long term key types
- a2dp: Fix crash on NULL stream in transport_cb
- adapter: Fix crash on short start discovery reply
- bap: Fix use-after-free of device referenced by se…
- mgmt-tester: ignore Debug feature in Read Exp Feat…
Company Focus Areas
Independent Contributors
- ipv6: update NUD_FAILED neighbors from NA messages
- Bluetooth: Add AIC8800D80 SDIO firmware loader and UART HCI
- [bug report] Bluetooth: btusb: Add support for Qualcomm multi-subsystem QCC2072
- device: Fix resolving a coordinated set over Secure Connections
Intel
- Cover a BAP stream to a coordinated set
- monitor: Search the frames with a pager
- monitor: Search the frames with a pager
- Bluetooth: btintel: read ROM debug registers on FW download failure
Qualcomm
- Bluetooth: Fix 2 devcoredump bugs and improve event length checks
- Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Simplify ACL handling and fix skb leak
- Bluetooth: btusb: Support Qualcomm multi-subsystem QCC2072
- Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Simplify ACL handling and fix skb leak
