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 v3 00/20] driver core: count references of the platform device's fwnode, not OF node
  2026-07-06 12:45 · 2 replies in 7d · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 0/9] pci: fix UAF and TOCTOU related to dynamic ID
  2026-07-06 14:12 · 1 reply in 7d · Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 0/7] pci: fix UAF and TOCTOU related to dynamic ID
  2026-06-30 11:09 · 1 reply in 7d · Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-06

Recent patches

Most-recent 21 patches in this subsystem on driver-core, ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 16 (16M) [PATCH v3 4/9] mlxsw: don't store pci_device_id
  2026-07-06 · Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v3 14/20] net: mv643xx: use platform_device_set_of_node()
  2026-07-06 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 10/20] net: bcmgenet: use platform_device_set_of_node()
  2026-07-06 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 4/7] mlxsw: don't keep pci_device_id
  2026-06-30 · Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 13/19] net: mv643xx: use platform_device_set_of_node()
  2026-06-29 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 09/19] net: bcmgenet: use platform_device_set_of_node()
  2026-06-29 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH 6/7] net: phy: qt2025: use vertical import style
  2026-06-29 · Guru Das Srinagesh <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH 5/7] net: phy: ax88796b: use vertical import style
  2026-06-29 · Guru Das Srinagesh <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 17/23] net: mv643xx: use platform_device_set_of_node()
  2026-05-21 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 13/23] net: bcmgenet: use platform_device_set_of_node()
  2026-05-21 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 02/23] net: mv643xx: fix OF node refcount
  2026-05-21 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 41 (41M) [PATCH v5 8/9] driver core: Replace dev->of_node_reused with dev_of_node_reused()
  2026-04-06 · Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
• STALE91d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v4 8/9] driver core: Replace dev->of_node_reused with dev_of_node_reused()
  2026-04-04 · Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
• STALE94d [PATCH v3 8/9] driver core: Replace dev->of_node_reused with DEV_FLAG_OF_NODE_REUSED
  2026-04-03 · Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
• COLD58d [PATCH net-next 07/10] net: phy: switch to using class_find_device_by_fwnode()
  2026-03-23 · Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
• COLD58d [PATCH net-next 01/10] net: wan: framer: switch to using class_find_device_by_fwnode()
  2026-03-23 · Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
• STALE102d REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v2] device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe
  2026-03-17 · Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
• STALE111d [PATCH] device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe
  2026-03-16 · Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
• STALE110d [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: phy: remove Kconfig symbol MDIO_BUS
  2026-03-15 · Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
• STALE130d [PATCH] treewide: fix duplicated word "the" in comments
  2026-02-24 · Yousef El Bouzidi <hidden>
• STALE134d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH V2] driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix sysfs creation on bind
  2026-02-19 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>

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.

• STALE134d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH V2] driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix sysfs creation on bind
  2026-02-19 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com> · 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.

• STALE110d [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: phy: remove Kconfig symbol MDIO_BUS
  2026-03-15 · Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
• COLD58d [PATCH net-next 01/10] net: wan: framer: switch to using class_find_device_by_fwnode()
  2026-03-23 · Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
• COOLING8d [PATCH 02/23] net: mv643xx: fix OF node refcount
  2026-05-21 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>