Weekly Report: linux-bluetooth Mailing List - February 23 - March 1, 2026 (Week 09)

Total messages: 277 (218 human, 59 CI/bot)

Note: Of the 277 messages in the archive, 218 are human-generated and 59 are CI/bot messages. Messages from Sasha Levin were discarded and are not counted; CI/bot messages are excluded from the Top Contributors table and from the Key Patch listings below.

Summary

Active week with 277 messages in the archive (218 human). Major activity included L2CAP fixes, HIDP work, BlueZ functional testing and emulator improvements, a sizable set of btintel/PCIe device-id patches, and community discussion around testing and qualification. Documentation and tooling patches continued alongside hardware enablement and robustness fixes.

Key Patch Series & Discussions

Kernel Patches

BlueZ Userspace Patches

Build & Infrastructure

• Automated CI and testbot messages were present (build failures, monthly syzbot reports, patchwork notifications); these are noted but excluded from human-focused listings.

Community

• Active discussion on testing/qualification, especially around functional tests and emulator behavior; maintainers coordinated on test infrastructure changes.
• Several reviewers and maintainers provided detailed feedback on device enablement and HIDP issues.

Bug Reports

• A number of firmware/driver bug reports and patch failures were visible in the archive and discussed; CI-sourced failure notices were observed but are not counted as human contributions in this report.

Top Contributors (by message count)

Merged to master (BlueZ & bluetooth-next)

Detected applied/merged items (identified via patchwork/push notifications in the archive):

1. [v3] Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix not checking output MTU is acceptable on L2CAP_ECRED_CONN_REQ — Luiz Augusto von Dentz (Intel) — applied to bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git (master) (commit: https://git.kernel.org/bluetooth/bluetooth-next/c/6a4f124c550d)
2. [v1] Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix missing key size check for L2CAP_LE_CONN_REQ — Luiz Augusto von Dentz (Intel) — applied to bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git (master) (commit: https://git.kernel.org/bluetooth/bluetooth-next/c/ea5263dc9312)
3. [BlueZ,v2] l2test: Attempt to use BT_SNDMTU if output MTU has been set — Luiz Augusto von Dentz (Intel) — applied to bluetooth/bluez.git (master) (commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/?id=290f9973c906)
4. Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Use struct_size to improve hci_drv_read_info — (applied to bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git (master)) (commit: https://git.kernel.org/bluetooth/bluetooth-next/c/932fa6b5adb7)
5. [v2,1/8] mmc: sdio: add MediaTek MT7902 SDIO device ID (series) — (series applied to bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git (master)) (series head: https://git.kernel.org/bluetooth/bluetooth-next/c/30c211ed0440)
6. [BlueZ,v1] shared/att: Simplify logic of DB out of sync recovery — Luiz Augusto von Dentz (Intel) — applied to bluetooth/bluez.git (master) (commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/?id=a96f5f4eba9a)
7. [BlueZ,01/12] client/mgmt: fix compiler error (series) — (series applied to bluetooth/bluez.git (master)) (series head: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/?id=451fff520c8a)
8. [1/4] Bluetooth: L2CAP: CoC: Disconnect if received packet’s SDU exceeds IMTU (series) — (series applied to bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git (master)) (example commit: https://git.kernel.org/bluetooth/bluetooth-next/c/0911d455d881)
9. [BlueZ,v2] shared/bap: Fix endpoint configuration — (applied to bluetooth/bluez.git (master)) (commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/?id=21459ac269ed)
10. [BlueZ,1/2] Revert “shared/shell: Don’t init input for non-interactive shells” — (applied to bluetooth/bluez.git (master)) (commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/?id=b33e923b55e4)
11. [BlueZ,1/4] shared/mgmt: Add mgmt_parse_io_capability (series) — (series applied to bluetooth/bluez.git (master)) (series head: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/?id=61f25f9aacdc)
12. [v2] Bluetooth: L2CAP: CoC: Disconnect if received packet size exceeds MPS — Christian Eggers (ARRI) — applied to bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git (master) (commit: https://git.kernel.org/bluetooth/bluetooth-next/c/cb75c9a0505b)

Notes: entries above were detected by fetching raw message bodies for candidate patch/push messages from the saved search pages and searching for “applied to bluetooth” markers (patchwork notifications and push notices). Where the applied notice was a patchwork notification the applier is often the maintainer (Luiz Augusto von Dentz for many entries); some series entries reference the patchwork bot notification as the message in the archive — the upstream commit links are included in the original notifications where available.

Company Focus Areas

Intel

Continued driver/device focus: btintel PCIe device-id additions and ScP2-related support work led by Intel contributors; minor protocol reviews and maintenance activity.

Red Hat

HIDP and portability fixes; review and discussion participation on HIDP cap report descriptor changes and related input handling.

MediaTek

Device enablement and firmware/driver follow-ups from prior weeks continued in discussions and patches.

Collabora

Participation in BlueZ userspace improvements and reviews, particularly tooling and shared component fixes.

ARRI

Focused on testing and qualification issues, providing multiple follow-ups and detailed discussion threads on mesh/mgmt behavior.

Notable Trends

1. Testing & CI: Emphasis on functional/integration testing and emulator robustness with a sizable patch series improving test infrastructure.
2. Device enablement: btintel device-id additions and plugin expansions (Switch 2) continued to bring new hardware and test plugins upstream.
3. Ongoing maintenance: HIDP, L2CAP, and mesh/mgmt discussions produced active fixes and reviewer feedback across the week.