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Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

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

Recent patches

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

• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH 02/19] crypto: cmh - add core platform driver
  2026-06-25 · Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy <hidden>
• COOLING7d 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>
• COLD36d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD36d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD36d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD36d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD23d [RFC PATCH v1 11/13] exec: let close-range actions target the max fd
  2026-05-28 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COLD23d [RFC PATCH v1 10/13] exec: require absolute paths for path-created templates
  2026-05-28 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COLD23d [RFC PATCH v1 09/13] Documentation: describe spawn templates
  2026-05-28 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH] crypto: af_alg - Document the deprecation of AF_ALG
  2026-04-30 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE61d [PATCH v3 4/9] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE61d [PATCH v3 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE61d [PATCH v3 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE61d [PATCH v3 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v2 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v2 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE110d [PATCH net-next v2 04/14] tcp: snapshot the maximum advertised receive window
  2026-03-14 · <hidden>
• STALE110d [PATCH net-next v2 02/14] tcp: snapshot advertise-time scaling for rcv_wnd
  2026-03-14 · <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE87d [PATCH 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE87d [PATCH 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE87d [PATCH 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE115d [PATCH net 1/7] tcp: track advertise-time scaling basis for rcv_wnd
  2026-03-11 · Wesley Atwell <hidden>
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2] sched/deadline: document new sched_getattr() feature for retrieving current parameters for DEADLINE tasks
  2026-03-04 · Tommaso Cucinotta <hidden>
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH] sched/deadline: document new sched_getattr() feature for retrieving current parameters for DEADLINE tasks
  2026-03-03 · Tommaso Cucinotta <hidden>
• STALE156d [PATCH] tty: synclink_gt: remove broken driver
  2026-01-29 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE198d [RFC PATCH v5 04/15] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE198d [RFC PATCH v5 01/15] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE198d [RFC PATCH v5 02/15] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE198d [RFC PATCH v5 04/15] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE115d [PATCH net 1/7] tcp: track advertise-time scaling basis for rcv_wnd
  2026-03-11 · Wesley Atwell <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE87d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE110d [PATCH net-next v2 02/14] tcp: snapshot advertise-time scaling for rcv_wnd
  2026-03-14 · <hidden>
• STALE110d [PATCH net-next v2 04/14] tcp: snapshot the maximum advertised receive window
  2026-03-14 · <hidden>
• STALE102d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v2 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>