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• M Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
• R Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

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• X Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/
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• X Documentation/spi/
• X Documentation/userspace-api/media/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 00/11] Add NVIDIA LSTP USB adapter drivers
  2026-10-12 17:37 · 1 reply in 7d · Adrian Ambrozewicz <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v14 0/5] drivers/base: Introduce revocable
  2026-10-11 12:14 · 1 reply in 7d · Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-10-03
• Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
  2 attestations (1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-28
• Bradley Morgan <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-27
• Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-14
• Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-10-11
• Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-28
• Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-27
• Laurence Oberman <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-14

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH 05/11] usb: misc: Add NVIDIA LSTP USB adapter driver
  2026-10-12 · Adrian Ambrozewicz <hidden>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v14 1/5] revocable: Revocable resource management
  2026-10-11 · Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [RFC: DMA_PMD 01/22] iommu/dma: introduce CONFIG_DMA_PMD and metadata table
  2026-10-03 · Luigi Rizzo <hidden>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v19 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-10-03 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• COOLING11d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH] Documentation: devres: Remove non-existent SPI register helpers
  2026-10-02 · Jesse Jeronimus <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v3 12/12] kexec: Expose the crash memaction bitmap in debugfs
  2026-09-28 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v3 11/12] Documentation/mm: Document the crash memaction registry
  2026-09-28 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v3 01/12] kexec: Add a crash memaction registry
  2026-09-28 · Jan Sebastian Götte <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v3 2/3] Add TAINT_DRIVER_OVERRIDE for usage of driver_override
  2026-09-28 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• COOLING14d IN LINUX-NEXT: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 1/3] docs: admin-guide: Handle TAINT_FORCED_BIND when parsing /proc/sys/kernel/tainted
  2026-09-28 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• COLD15d SUPERSEDED: 7 (6M) [PATCH v2 2/2] Add TAINT_DRIVER_OVERRIDE for usage of driver_override
  2026-09-27 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• COLD15d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: admin-guide: Handle TAINT_FORCED_BIND when parsing /proc/sys/kernel/tainted
  2026-09-27 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v18 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-09-26 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH] Add TAINT_DRIVER_OVERRIDE for usage of driver_override
  2026-09-25 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH RESEND 6/7] Documentation/locking: document sleeping lock holder tracking
  2026-09-24 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
• COOLING6d [PATCH RFC -next 12/12] Documentation: Update landlock doc for metadata rights
  2026-09-24 · Cai Xinchen <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH 6/7] Documentation/locking: document sleeping lock holder tracking
  2026-09-23 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v17 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-09-23 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6/9] driver core: async device shutdown infrastructure
  2026-09-17 · David Jeffery <hidden>
• COLD24d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v16 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-09-15 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• COLD19d IN LINUX-NEXT: 8 (7M) [PATCH v4 3/3] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-09-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v15 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-09-13 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• COLD26d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v13 1/3] revocable: Revocable resource management
  2026-09-12 · Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v14 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-09-09 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v12 1/3] revocable: Revocable resource management
  2026-09-08 · Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v13 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-09-07 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• COLD38d REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH v3 2/2] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-09-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD39d SUPERSEDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6/9] driver core: async device shutdown infrastructure
  2026-09-02 · David Jeffery <hidden>
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 2/2] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-08-31 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 2/2] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-08-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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.

• STALE73d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v19 5/7] driver core: async device shutdown infrastructure +6 more in this series
  2026-07-17 · Tarun Sahu <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v11 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-08-15 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD56d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v12 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-08-16 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 2/2] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-08-31 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD38d REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH v3 2/2] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-09-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 3 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v13 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-09-07 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v12 1/3] revocable: Revocable resource management
  2026-09-08 · Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v14 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-09-09 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v15 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-09-13 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD24d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v16 6/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: document devlink flash and info support
  2026-09-15 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> · 1 Reviewed-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.

• STALE90d [RFC PATCH 13/14] Documentation: add lazy sysfs initialisation and device_sysfs_entry docs +12 more in this series
  2026-07-02 · Pavol Sakac <hidden>
• STALE90d [PATCH v6 2/2] PM: dpm_watchdog: Allow disabling DPM watchdog by default +1 more in this series
  2026-07-08 · Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH v5 33/36] Documentation/mm: describe private (N_MEMORY_PRIVATE) memory nodes +34 more in this series
  2026-07-20 · Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
• STALE75d [PATCH v6 3/8] gpu: nova-core: add TLV parser for firmware files +7 more in this series
  2026-07-29 · Timur Tabi <hidden>
• STALE64d [PATCH 09/12] docs: gpu: nova-core: Document the PRAMIN aperture mechanism
  2026-08-05 · Eliot Courtney <hidden>