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• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

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Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING5d [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD17d [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Add CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING to clean up kernel.h
  2026-06-21 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v13 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE64d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v12 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE64d IN LINUX-NEXT: 5 (2M) [PATCH v11 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-14 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE65d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v10 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-13 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE67d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v9 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-08 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v8 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH] dept: update documentation function names to match implementation
  2026-04-28 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• STALE85d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE79d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 17/33] rust: bump `bindgen` minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE79d REVIEWED: 36 (36M) [PATCH v2 05/33] rust: bump Rust minimum supported version to 1.85.0 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE103d [PATCH 14/33] rust: bump `bindgen` minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-01 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE103d [PATCH 01/33] rust: bump Rust minimum supported version to 1.85.0 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-01 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE122d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v6 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-03-17 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE179d [PATCH 6/9] docs: kdoc: move kernel-doc to tools/docs
  2026-01-19 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix typos and grammatical errors
  2026-01-12 · Nauman Sabir <hidden>
• COOLING12d Re: [PATCH v18 25/42] dept: add documents for dept
  2025-12-06 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v18 25/42] dept: add documents for dept
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE229d [PATCH 5/5] fbcon: Remove fb_debug_enter/_leave from struct fb_ops
  2025-11-25 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE310d [PATCH v2 13/13] Documentation: checkpatch: Convert kernel docs references
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE310d [PATCH v2 07/13] Documentation: kasan: Use internal link to kunit
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE318d [PATCH 07/14] Documentation: kasan: Use internal link to kunit
  2025-08-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE318d [PATCH 14/14] Documentation: checkpatch: Convert kernel docs references
  2025-08-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE324d LANDED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v4 7/7] Documentation: kunit: Document new parameterized test features
  2025-08-26 · David Gow <hidden>
• STALE337d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 7/7] Documentation: kunit: Document new parameterized test features
  2025-08-15 · Marie Zhussupova <hidden>
• STALE339d [PATCH v2 7/7] Documentation: kunit: Document new parameterized test features
  2025-08-11 · Marie Zhussupova <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH 9/9] Documentation: kunit: Document new parameterized test features
  2025-07-29 · Marie Zhussupova <hidden>
• STALE407d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v5 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2025-05-26 · Alessandro Carminati <hidden>
• STALE448d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v4 04/14] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2025-03-13 · Alessandro Carminati <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.

• STALE122d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v6 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-03-17 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE85d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v8 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE67d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v9 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-08 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE65d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v10 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-13 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE64d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v12 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v13 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix typos and grammatical errors
  2026-01-12 · Nauman Sabir <hidden>
• STALE179d [PATCH 6/9] docs: kdoc: move kernel-doc to tools/docs
  2026-01-19 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>