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/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)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/4] Remove limitations coming from legacy VMDq
  2026-09-21 11:51 · 5 replies in 7d · David Marchand <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/5] net/bnxt: fix flow, Rx and naming bounds issues
  2026-09-21 02:21 · 10 replies in 7d · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/5] net/bnxt: fix VF and firmware-facing bounds/leak issues
  2026-09-21 02:17 · 10 replies in 7d · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [RFC 00/32] remove rte_smp barrier functions
  2026-09-20 18:16 · 7 replies in 7d · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] net/bnxt: remove duplicate branches and conditions
  2026-09-21 02:14 · 2 replies in 7d · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [dpdk-dev v1] net/sxe2: replace private mempool cache bypass with rte_mbuf_raw_free_bulk
  2026-09-21 15:52 · 1 reply in 7d · Kai Ji <hidden>
• HOTtoday [RFC 0/7] prepare deprecation of rte_atomicNN_*() family
  2026-09-17 20:13 · 13 replies in 7d · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] net/bnxt: add support for queue size of 16384
  2026-09-21 02:56 · 1 reply in 7d · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] net/bnxt: add Tx DMA error stat counter
  2026-09-21 02:24 · 1 reply in 7d · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] net/bnxt: fix flow create segfault
  2026-09-21 02:15 · 1 reply in 7d · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Hemant Agrawal <hidden>
  34 attestations (34 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Ciara Loftus <hidden>
  29 attestations (29 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-16
• Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
  16 attestations (16 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-25
• David Marchand <hidden>
  10 attestations (8 Acked-by, 2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-16
• Dariusz Sosnowski <hidden>
  8 attestations (8 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-21
• Bruce Richardson <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-20
• Andrew Rybchenko <hidden>
  3 attestations (2 Acked-by, 1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-07
• Praveen Shetty <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-15
• Morten Brørup <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-07

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] net/sxe2: replace private mempool cache bypass with rte_mbuf_raw_free_bulk
  2026-09-21 · Kai Ji <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v8 5/5] net/mlx5: accept more unicast MAC addresses
  2026-09-21 · David Marchand <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 4/5] net/mlx5: use bitset for tracking MAC addresses
  2026-09-21 · David Marchand <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 3/5] net/mlx5: pass maximum number of unicast MAC to common code
  2026-09-21 · David Marchand <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 2/5] net/mlx5: remove redundant MAC address index checks
  2026-09-21 · David Marchand <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 1/5] net/mlx5: remove MAC addresses flush helper on Linux
  2026-09-21 · David Marchand <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] net/bnxt: add support for driver mapping layer
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] net/bnxt: fix forcing of mbuf fast free
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] net/bnxt: remove VMDq support
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] net/bnxt: validate ptype table indexing at build time
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] net/bnxt: fix bounds in RSS queue match and ctx initializer
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] net/bnxt: fix NVRAM directory integer overflow
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] net/bnxt: fix VF RSS hash mode configuration
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] net/bnxt: handle mpc ring creation failure
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] net/bnxt: add support for queue size of 16384
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] net/bnxt: enable Tx completion coalescing in hardware
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] net/bnxt: add Tx DMA error stat counter
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 5/5] net/bnxt: fix TPA agg Rx descriptor and VNIC query bounds
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 4/5] net/bnxt: fix bounds in MAC pool index and flow parsing
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 3/5] net/bnxt: harden sprintf bounds for device memory names
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 2/5] net/bnxt: fix bounds on TPA aggregation ID from completions
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 1/5] net/bnxt: fix stack exhaustion in flow stats
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 5/5] net/bnxt: fix VF info alloc error path memory leak
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 4/5] net/bnxt: fix memory leak in VF VNIC query error path
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 3/5] net/bnxt: fix use-after-free in VNIC filter cleanup
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 2/5] net/bnxt: fix bounds on firmware-reported resource counts
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 1/5] net/bnxt: add VF ID boundary check before usage
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] net/bnxt: fix flow create segfault
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] net/bnxt: remove duplicate branches and conditions
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] net/bnxt: remove duplicate branches and conditions
  2026-09-21 · Mohammad Shuab Siddique <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.

• STALE181d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix meter ASO action leak on release to pool
  2026-03-15 · Shani Peretz <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix heap-buffer-overflow in sample group match
  2026-03-15 · Shani Peretz <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix VXLAN and NVGRE encap in async flow API
  2026-03-19 · Dariusz Sosnowski <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix VLAN strip info for CQE compression
  2026-03-20 · Dariusz Sosnowski <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 1/2] common/mlx5: fix doorbell race from compiler reordering
  2026-03-22 · Shani Peretz <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] net/mlx5: cleanup unused olx parameter in Tx free routines
  2026-03-23 · Viacheslav Ovsiienko <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] net/mlx5: cleanup unused Tx doorbelling routine
  2026-03-23 · Viacheslav Ovsiienko <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix flex item capability check
  2026-03-23 · Dariusz Sosnowski <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] net/mlx5: cleanup unused olx parameter in Tx free routines
  2026-03-23 · Viacheslav Ovsiienko <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE161d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 04/10] net/mlx5: add per-queue packet pacing infrastructure
  2026-03-24 · Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr> · 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.

• STALE207d [PATCH v12 2/3] net/idpf: enable AVX2 for split queue Tx
  2026-02-24 · Shaiq Wani <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH v8 10/26] net/i40e: avoid rte malloc in RSS RETA operations
  2026-02-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH v8 11/26] net/i40e: avoid rte malloc in MAC/VLAN filtering
  2026-02-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH v8 15/26] net/i40e: avoid rte malloc in DDP ptype handling
  2026-02-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH v8 16/26] net/iavf: remove remnants of pipeline mode
  2026-02-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH v8 19/26] net/iavf: avoid rte malloc in RSS configuration
  2026-02-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH v8 20/26] net/iavf: avoid rte malloc in MAC address operations
  2026-02-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH v8 21/26] net/iavf: avoid rte malloc in queue operations
  2026-02-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH v8 22/26] net/iavf: avoid rte malloc in irq map config
  2026-02-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH v8 18/26] net/iavf: avoid rte malloc in VF mailbox for IPsec
  2026-02-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>