networking drivers · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
• M Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• M Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• M Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/
• F Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
• F drivers/connector/
• F drivers/net/
• F drivers/ptp/
• F drivers/s390/net/
• F include/dt-bindings/net/
• F include/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/linux/etherdevice.h
• F include/linux/ethtool_netlink.h
• F include/linux/fcdevice.h
• F include/linux/fddidevice.h
• F include/linux/if_*
• F include/linux/inetdevice.h
• F include/linux/netdev*
• F include/linux/platform_data/wiznet.h
• F include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink*
• F include/uapi/linux/if_*
• F include/uapi/linux/net_shaper.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netdev*
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/bluetooth/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/
• X drivers/net/can/
• X drivers/net/wireless/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH v1 00/20] net/sxe2: added Linkdata sxe ethernet driver
  2026-06-04 01:56 · 162 replies in 7d · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v1 00/25] Add common flow attr/action parsing infrastructure to Intel PMD's
  2026-06-04 16:22 · 50 replies in 7d · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/5] net/bnxt: interrupt handling, external mbuf and stability fixes
  2026-06-05 00:49 · 10 replies in 7d · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/4] net/bnxt: miscellaneous bug fixes
  2026-06-04 22:55 · 10 replies in 7d · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/2] ethdev: support selective Rx data
  2026-06-04 19:34 · 19 replies in 7d · Gregory Etelson <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH 00/10] net/bnxt: vector mode V3 implementation and AVX2 improvements
  2026-06-04 03:18 · 10 replies in 7d · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH 0/4] net/bnxt: ULP stats timer and PTP timestamping improvements
  2026-06-03 20:36 · 4 replies in 7d · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] net/af_packet: fix qpairs argument upper bound check
  2026-06-03 18:13 · 2 replies in 7d · Denis Sergeev <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] net/ark: fix null dereference on allocation failure
  2026-06-03 16:32 · 2 replies in 7d · Denis Sergeev <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] net/ark: validate IPv4 octets in address parser
  2026-06-04 03:49 · 1 reply in 7d · Denis Sergeev <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Bruce Richardson <hidden>
  37 attestations (37 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-04
• Joshua Washington <joshwash@google.com>
  30 attestations (30 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-15
• Jasper Tran O'Leary <hidden>
  30 attestations (30 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-15
• Dariusz Sosnowski <hidden>
  3 attestations (2 Acked-by, 1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-04
• Chengwen Feng <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-05-30
• Bing Zhao <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-05-25
• Denis Sergeev <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-03
• Ciara Loftus <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-02
• Andrew Rybchenko <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-29

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on dpdk-dev (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 5/5] net/bnxt: fix for segmentation fault that would occur on exit
  2026-06-05 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 4/5] net/bnxt: prevent a potential segfault
  2026-06-05 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 3/5] net/bnxt: fix IOVA range check for external mbuf head node
  2026-06-05 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 2/5] net/bnxt: use buf address for external mbuf
  2026-06-05 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 1/5] net/bnxt: fix NQ/CQ processing for interrupt handling
  2026-06-05 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 4/4] net/bnxt: fix RSS hash mode configuration for VFs
  2026-06-04 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 3/4] net/bnxt: remove implicit integer sign-extension
  2026-06-04 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 2/4] net/bnxt: fix QP resource count in backing store config
  2026-06-04 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 1/4] net/bnxt: modify check for short Tx BDs
  2026-06-04 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v8 7/9] common/mlx5: remove callbacks for MR registration
  2026-06-04 · Thomas Monjalon <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v8 6/9] net/mlx5: support selective Rx
  2026-06-04 · Thomas Monjalon <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v8 5/9] net/mlx5: fix Rx split segment counter type
  2026-06-04 · Thomas Monjalon <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 27/27] net/ice: use common action checks for ACL
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 26/27] net/ice: use common action checks for switch
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 25/27] net/ice: use common action checks for FDIR
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 24/27] net/ice: use common action checks for hash
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 23/27] net/ice: use common flow attribute checks
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 22/27] net/iavf: use common action checks for flow query
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 21/27] net/iavf: use common action checks for fsub
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 20/27] net/iavf: use common action checks for FDIR
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 19/27] net/iavf: use common action checks for hash
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 18/27] net/iavf: use common action checks for IPsec
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 17/27] net/iavf: use common flow attribute checks
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 16/27] net/i40e: use common action checks for tunnel
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 15/27] net/i40e: use common action checks for FDIR
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 14/27] net/i40e: use common action checks for ethertype
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 13/27] net/i40e: refactor RSS flow parameter checks
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 12/27] net/i40e: use common flow attribute checks
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 11/27] net/ixgbe: use common checks in RSS filter
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 10/27] net/ixgbe: use common checks in FDIR filters
  2026-06-04 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE120d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix metadata sharing between E-Switch and VM
  2025-11-23 · Gregory Etelson <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE189d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2] net/nbl: add VLAN offload set interface
  2025-11-27 · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE185d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) RE: [PATCH] Revert "net/iavf: fix check for PF Rx timestamp support"
  2025-11-27 · Hore, Soumyadeep <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE112d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 2/2] net/mlx5: add mlx5 prefix to remaining internal functions
  2025-11-27 · Maayan Kashani <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE120d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix register selection for metadata between E-Switch and VM
  2025-12-01 · Gregory Etelson <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE184d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) Re: [PATCH] net/axgbe: add support for V4000 Kracken2e
  2025-12-02 · Sebastian, Selwin <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH] net/bnxt: fix a segmentation fault
  2025-12-04 · Manish Kurup <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE120d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] net/mlx5/windows: fix MAC address ownership tracking
  2025-12-09 · Itai Sharoni <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 01/10] net/intel: introduce infrastructure for Tx path selection
  2025-12-12 · Ciara Loftus <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 01/10] net/intel: introduce infrastructure for Tx path selection
  2025-12-12 · Ciara Loftus <hidden> · 1 Acked-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE203d [PATCH v4 02/23] net/cnxk: new tree for SDP interface
  2025-11-07 · Nithin Dabilpuram <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH v4 04/23] net/cnxk: update scatter check as warning for SDP
  2025-11-07 · Nithin Dabilpuram <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH v4 03/23] net/cnxk: disable CQ when SQ stopped
  2025-11-07 · Nithin Dabilpuram <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH v4 22/23] net/cnxk: fix illegal access of Rx inject LF
  2025-11-07 · Nithin Dabilpuram <hidden>
• STALE136d [RFC PATCH v2 13/33] net/intel: rename function param to avoid shadow warnings
  2025-11-07 · Bruce Richardson <hidden>
• STALE136d [RFC PATCH v2 14/33] net/e1000: fix build with shadow warnings enabled
  2025-11-07 · Bruce Richardson <hidden>
• STALE136d [RFC PATCH v2 15/33] net/i40e: fix build with shadow warnings enabled
  2025-11-07 · Bruce Richardson <hidden>
• STALE136d [RFC PATCH v2 16/33] net/ice: fix build with shadow warnings enabled
  2025-11-07 · Bruce Richardson <hidden>
• STALE136d [RFC PATCH v2 17/33] net/cpfl: fix build with shadow warnings enabled
  2025-11-07 · Bruce Richardson <hidden>
• STALE136d [RFC PATCH v2 18/33] net/ixgbe: fix build with shadow warnings enabled
  2025-11-07 · Bruce Richardson <hidden>