linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 44
Total messages: 298 (189 human, 109 CI/bot)
linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 43
25 October 2026
Total messages: 262 (146 human, 116 CI/bot)
Note: Of the 262 messages, 146 are human-generated, 116 are CI/bot (bluez.test.bot: 60, patchwork-bot+bluetooth: 21, bugzilla-daemon: 18, Sasha Levin: 13, kernel test robot: 2, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf: 2).
Summary
During week 43 (19 - 25 October 2026) the linux-bluetooth mailing list carried 262 messages, 146 from contributors and 116 from CI and bots. There were 61 human-initiated threads: 44 kernel patch series, 13 BlueZ userspace series and 4 discussions or reports. 21 patches were applied via patchwork and 0 commits were pushed to bluez repositories. The most active contributor was Luiz Augusto von Dentz (Intel) with 36 messages. 7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Plans for Periodic Advertising with Responses (PAwR) in kernel/BlueZ? | Schober Roland | 2 messages |
| Reported Bluez vulnerabilities | Alexandro Calò | 1 message |
| [BUG] Bluetooth: btmtk: MT7902 does not recover from firmware assert; subsys res… | Ismail Tarim | 1 message |
| mediatek MT7925: update bluetooth firmware to 20261016233221 | Chris Lu | 1 message |
Series Revised This Week
Top Contributors (by message count)
| Contributor | Affiliation | Messages |
|---|---|---|
| Luiz Augusto von Dentz | Intel | 36 |
| Chris Lu | MediaTek | 13 |
| Cen Zhang | Independent | 11 |
| christian.koever-draxl | Independent | 8 |
| Brandon Williams | Independent | 7 |
| Kevin Dewald | Independent | 6 |
| Valentin Kindschi | Independent | 6 |
| Tobias Wilken | Independent | 4 |
| Binbin Deng | Independent | 3 |
| Mohammed Sadiq | Independent | 3 |
Merged to master (BlueZ & bluetooth-next)
Applied to bluetooth-next (kernel, via patchwork notifications)
- Bluetooth: hci_core: Initialize IRK before publication
- Bluetooth: hci_core: Initialize LTK before publication
- Bluetooth: hci_sync: re-enable legacy advertising on resume
- Bluetooth: hci_core: Initialize link key before publication
- Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix queuing rx_work while workqueue is drained
- Bluetooth: btmtk: remove redundant memory barrier with helper
- Bluetooth: btintel: fix buffer over-read in fw payload
- Bluetooth: L2CAP: Hold incoming data until encryption key size is know
- Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Allow COMPILE_TEST without ACPI
- Bluetooth: hci_event: Clear explicit connect state on LE connection
- Bluetooth: MGMT: Return RFKILLED for Set Powered on a blocked controll
- Bluetooth: qca: Fix the WCN3950 NVM baud rate offset
- Bluetooth: hci_sync: Protect resolving-list lookups
- Bluetooth: btmtk: fix ISO data reception
Applied to BlueZ (via patchwork notifications)
- monitor: Fix legacy SCAN_RSP PDU type names
- Fix use-after-free in GATT client discovery
- a2dp: Remove duplicate check in transport_cb
- emulator: Avoid variable length array in send_cmd
- obexd: Handle message read status change events
- mesh: Fix Command Disallowed on random address change in generic IO
- doc: Add CONFIG_RFKILL to the tester kernel config
Pushed to bluez repositories
- None recorded this week.
Company Focus Areas
Independent Contributors
- Bluetooth: make the Amlogic W1 (W155S2) usable
- Bluetooth: btusb: disable by default Qualcomm multi-subsystem
- Bluetooth: SMP: distribute the identity address when bonding
- Bluetooth: qca: Fix the WCN3950 NVM baud rate offset
Intel
- Run the testers under User Mode Linux with time travel
- Bluetooth: L2CAP: Hold incoming data until encryption key size is known
- Bluetooth: btintel: Add TOP silent reset hooks
- Bluetooth: btintel: check FIPS status before firmware download
