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

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• F Documentation/dev-tools/
• F Documentation/maintainer/
• F Documentation/process/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: deprecated.rst: type-aware kmalloc-family: mark optional argument as such
  2026-04-20 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH] [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-20 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE103d [PATCH] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-18 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE632d LANDED [PATCH] Documentation/maintainer-tip: Fix typos
  2024-10-27 · Andrew Kreimer <hidden>
• STALE660d LANDED [PATCH] docs: backporting: fix a typo
  2024-10-02 · Andrew Kreimer <hidden>
• STALE687d [PATCH v2] docs/process: fix typos
  2024-09-07 · Andrew Kreimer <hidden>
• STALE691d [PATCH] docs/process: fix typos
  2024-09-06 · Andrew Kreimer <hidden>
• STALE868d [PATCH 3/3] docs: submitting-patches: move backtraces to patch description
  2024-03-01 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE868d [PATCH 2/3] docs: submitting-patches: move split_changes before describe_change
  2024-03-01 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE868d [PATCH 1/3] docs: submitting-patches: divert focus from PATCH in the subject line
  2024-03-01 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE878d [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: submit-checklist: change to autonumbered lists
  2024-02-29 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE878d [PATCH v2 2/3] docs: submit-checklist: use subheadings
  2024-02-29 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE878d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/3] docs: submit-checklist: structure by category
  2024-02-29 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2-squashed] docs: submit-checklist: structure by category
  2024-02-29 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE882d [PATCH] docs: submit-checklist: structure by category
  2024-02-26 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1111d LANDED [PATCH] docs: deprecated.rst: Update an example
  2023-06-25 · Christophe JAILLET <hidden>
• STALE1197d LANDED [PATCH] docs: kmemleak: adjust to config renaming
  2023-04-14 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1476d LANDED [PATCH 06/11] docs: process: remove outdated submitting-drivers.rst
  2022-07-04 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1476d LANDED [PATCH 04/11] docs: kernel-docs: add a reference mentioned in submitting-drivers.rst
  2022-07-04 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1476d LANDED [PATCH 03/11] docs: kernel-docs: reflect that it is community-maintained
  2022-07-04 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1476d LANDED [PATCH 02/11] docs: kernel-docs: shorten the lengthy doc title
  2022-07-04 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1476d LANDED [PATCH 01/11] docs: kernel-docs: order reference from newest to oldest
  2022-07-04 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1487d [RFC PATCH 06/11] docs: process: remove outdated submitting-drivers.rst
  2022-06-27 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1487d [RFC PATCH 03/11] docs: kernel-docs: reflect that it is community-maintained
  2022-06-27 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1487d [RFC PATCH 04/11] docs: kernel-docs: add a reference mentioned in submitting-drivers.rst
  2022-06-27 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1487d [RFC PATCH 02/11] docs: kernel-docs: shorten the lengthy doc title
  2022-06-27 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1487d [RFC PATCH 01/11] docs: kernel-docs: order reference from newest to oldest
  2022-06-27 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE1668d LANDED [PATCH] Documentation: kgdb: properly capitalize the MAGIC_SYSRQ config
  2021-12-30 · Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• STALE2246d Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: pxa: pxa2xx: Remove 'pxa2xx_pinctrl_exit()' which is unused and broken
  2020-06-04 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE3205d [PATCH] docs: dev-tools: correct Coccinelle version number
  2017-10-15 · Julia Lawall <hidden>

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.

• STALE100d [PATCH] [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-20 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: deprecated.rst: type-aware kmalloc-family: mark optional argument as such
  2026-04-20 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>