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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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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v2] drm/lease: optionally expose leases as device nodes
  2026-09-02 18:09 · 0 replies in 7d · Andrey Erokhin <hidden>
• WARM3d [RFC PATCH] drm/lease: optionally expose leases as device nodes
  2026-08-31 20:01 · 0 replies in 7d · Andrey Erokhin <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net v2] net: unix: reject negative max_dgram_qlen values
  2026-08-29 08:58 · 0 replies in 7d · Yingjie Wang <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-25
• Joel Wittenauer <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-06
• Thi Nguyen <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-06

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v2] drm/lease: optionally expose leases as device nodes
  2026-09-02 · Andrey Erokhin <hidden>
• WARM3d [RFC PATCH] drm/lease: optionally expose leases as device nodes
  2026-08-31 · Andrey Erokhin <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net v2] net: unix: reject negative max_dgram_qlen values
  2026-08-29 · Yingjie Wang <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 6/7] sched/cache: Extend the enabled debugfs to more modes
  2026-08-28 · Tim Chen <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 7/7] sched/cache: Documentation: document the PR_SCHED_CACHE prctl
  2026-08-28 · Tim Chen <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v4 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v4 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-08-25 · Alex Ousherovitch <hidden>
• COLD24d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD24d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v3 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-08-06 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 7/7] Documentation: add failfs documentation
  2026-07-24 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 4/5] docs: ntsync: align ioctl names and struct layouts with uapi
  2026-07-23 · Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH RFC 7/7] Documentation: add failfs documentation
  2026-07-23 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 1/4] docs: ntsync: align uAPI ioctl names and struct layout with ntsync.h
  2026-07-20 · Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com>
• COOLING10d [RFC PATCH 24/24] Documentation: describe pidfd spawn builders
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COLD36d [RFC PATCH] fs: allow opening overlayfs/erofs layers through O_ALT
  2026-07-15 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• COLD53d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-07-09 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COLD53d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-07-09 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• STALE68d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-06-25 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• STALE68d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-06-25 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 11/11] kernel/api: add syscall enter/exit tracepoints
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE98d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE98d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE98d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE98d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE85d [RFC PATCH v1 11/13] exec: let close-range actions target the max fd
  2026-05-28 · Li Chen <hidden>
• STALE85d [RFC PATCH v1 10/13] exec: require absolute paths for path-created templates
  2026-05-28 · Li Chen <hidden>
• STALE85d [RFC PATCH v1 09/13] Documentation: describe spawn templates
  2026-05-28 · Li Chen <hidden>
• STALE73d [PATCH] crypto: af_alg - Document the deprecation of AF_ALG
  2026-04-30 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE122d [PATCH v3 4/9] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE122d [PATCH v3 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.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.

• COLD53d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 17/19] Documentation: ioctl: add CMH ioctl documentation and register 'J'
  2026-07-09 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 1/4] docs: ntsync: align uAPI ioctl names and struct layout with ntsync.h
  2026-07-20 · Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 4/5] docs: ntsync: align ioctl names and struct layouts with uapi
  2026-07-23 · Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.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.

• STALE176d [PATCH net 1/7] tcp: track advertise-time scaling basis for rcv_wnd
  2026-03-11 · Wesley Atwell <hidden>
• STALE149d [PATCH 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE149d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE172d [PATCH net-next v2 02/14] tcp: snapshot advertise-time scaling for rcv_wnd
  2026-03-14 · <hidden>
• STALE172d [PATCH net-next v2 04/14] tcp: snapshot the maximum advertised receive window
  2026-03-14 · <hidden>
• STALE164d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE164d [PATCH v2 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE164d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE122d [PATCH v3 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE122d [PATCH v3 4/9] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>