linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 43
Total messages: 262 (146 human, 116 CI/bot)
linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 44
1 November 2026
Total messages: 298 (189 human, 109 CI/bot)
Note: Of the 298 messages, 189 are human-generated, 109 are CI/bot (bluez.test.bot: 79, patchwork-bot+bluetooth: 21, bugzilla-daemon: 5, kernel test robot: 3, Sasha Levin: 1).
Summary
During week 44 (26 October - 1 November 2026) the linux-bluetooth mailing list carried 298 messages, 189 from contributors and 109 from CI and bots. There were 101 human-initiated threads: 61 kernel patch series, 31 BlueZ userspace series and 9 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 25 messages. 9 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] rtl_bt: RTL8852B BT USB FW 0x127C_FD78 stops delivering BLE keyboard input… | Athos Andrade | 2 messages |
| [REPORT] btusb: QCA9377 13d3:3503 on ROM firmware: HCI hang during mSBC SCO | Iaroslav Voitovych | 2 messages |
| [STABLE v6.1-v5.10 0/2] Bluetooth: L2CAP: Follow-up fixes for b66774b48dd9 (v6.1… | Lee Jones | 2 messages |
| [BUG] Bluetooth: cmd_work queued into draining workqueue in hci_cmd_timeout() | Yang Guikun | 1 message |
| [BUG] Bluetooth: hci_cc_le_set_cig_params trusts short retained command | Yifan Zhang | 1 message |
| [BUG] Bluetooth: hci_cs_le_create_cis trusts short retained command | Yifan Zhang | 1 message |
| [STABLE v6.1-v5.10 1/2] Bluetooth: L2CAP: access chan->conn safely in get/setsoc… | Lee Jones | 1 message |
| [STABLE v6.1-v5.10 2/2] Bluetooth: L2CAP: refuse __l2cap_chan_add if chan alread… | Lee Jones | 1 message |
Series Revised This Week
Top Contributors (by message count)
| Contributor | Affiliation | Messages |
|---|---|---|
| Luiz Augusto von Dentz | Intel | 25 |
| Cen Zhang | Independent | 18 |
| Kyle Pepper | Independent | 15 |
| Kevin Dewald | Independent | 14 |
| cochcoder | Independent | 10 |
| Kiran K | Intel | 9 |
| Zijun Hu | Qualcomm | 8 |
| Jinwang Li | Qualcomm | 7 |
| Iaroslav Voitovych | Independent | 7 |
| Michael McAllister | Independent | 5 |
Merged to master (BlueZ & bluetooth-next)
Applied to bluetooth-next (kernel, via patchwork notifications)
- Bluetooth: btintel: check FIPS status before firmware download
- Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Add LOG_MASK parsing from debug INI
- Bluetooth: btmtk: fix error handling in btmtk_usb_isointf_init()
- Bluetooth: L2CAP: Ignore connection responses with wrong ident
- Bluetooth: Keep borrowed keys inside RCU sections
- Bluetooth: MGMT: Clear disabled connection parameters when loading non
Applied to BlueZ (via patchwork notifications)
- obexd: Improve handling unsupported MAP events
- doc: Improve obex MessageAccess Filter Types doc
- adapter: Don’t power on while blocked by rfkill
- Promote the bearer interfaces to stable
- gatt-database: Fix freeing wrong client notify IO
- obexd/pbap: Fix NewMissedCalls reporting
- obexd/pbap: Report NewMissedCalls for mch
- ranging: Issue CS Security Enable based on the ACL role
- monitor: validate Return Link Keys length before parsing
- advertising: Fix leaking clients that exit while registering
- ioctl-tester: Fix name of the 3-DH packet type test
- adapter: Fix Discovering staying true when stopping fails
- adapter: Fix Discovering staying true after a rejected stop
- shared/bap: Fix line over 80 columns in set_base_subgroup
- Run the testers under User Mode Linux with time travel
Pushed to bluez repositories
- None recorded this week.
Company Focus Areas
Independent Contributors
- Bluetooth: btusb: UB500 reported maximum data length
- Bluetooth: hci_conn: fix SCO connection reuse
- adapter: Fix Discovering staying true when stopping fails
- Bluetooth: Disable LL Privacy on Intel JfP (8087:0aaa)
Intel
- Run test-functional under User Mode Linux
- Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Add LOG_MASK parsing from debug INI
- shared/bap: Fix line over 80 columns in set_base_subgroup
- ranging: Issue CS Security Enable based on the ACL role
Qualcomm
- Bluetooth: hci_qca: Reopen port after power on for QCA2066
- obexd/bluetooth: Fix profile registration race and clean up
- obexd/pbap: Fix NewMissedCalls reporting
- obexd/pbap: Report NewMissedCalls for mch
