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Maintainers

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

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• X Documentation/driver-api/media/
• X Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/
• X Documentation/i2c/
• X Documentation/netlink/
• X Documentation/power/
• X Documentation/spi/
• X Documentation/userspace-api/media/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 00/18] mm: arm64: Add kernel replication feature
  2026-08-27 16:26 · 1 reply in 7d · Nikita Panov <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 0/8] Enhance TLP packet decoder with field-level parsing and versioning
  2026-08-27 14:05 · 1 reply in 7d · Sizhe Liu <liusizhe5@huawei.com>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] arm64: expose CPU prefetch and cache modulation controls
  2026-08-25 18:17 · 1 reply in 7d · Koba Ko <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 0/8] KVM: arm64: Add KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY support
  2026-08-25 16:01 · 1 reply in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 00/13] drm/panic: Split into core and helpers
  2026-08-24 12:59 · 2 replies in 7d · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• WARM1d [PATCH v42 0/7] firmware: imx: driver for NXP secure-enclave
  2026-08-24 17:33 · 1 reply in 7d · <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v41 0/7] firmware: imx: driver for NXP secure-enclave
  2026-08-24 09:03 · 1 reply in 7d · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4] arm64: errata: Add NXP iMX8QM workaround for A53 cache coherency issue
  2026-08-24 04:04 · 0 replies in 7d · Peng Fan (OSS) <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v40 0/7] firmware: imx: driver for NXP secure-enclave
  2026-08-21 13:07 · 1 reply in 7d · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 00/14] perf cs-etm: Per-thread mode fixes and snapshot wrap support
  2026-08-21 09:49 · 1 reply in 7d · James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@nvidia.com>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-25
• Ivan T. Ivanov <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-24
• Tushar Dave <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-25
• Kai-Heng Feng <kaihengf@nvidia.com>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-25
• Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-11
• Gavin Shan <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-03
• Yuhao Jiang <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-08-12
• José Martins <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-07
• David Cerdeira <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-07
• Brian Masney <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-06

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 18/18] mm: introduce kernel cmdline option "kernel_replication="
  2026-08-27 · Nikita Panov <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 7/8] hwtracing: hisi_ptt: Add pattern PMU config for trace format selection
  2026-08-27 · Sizhe Liu <liusizhe5@huawei.com>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation/arch/arm64: document arm_cpumod
  2026-08-25 · Koba Ko <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 5/8] KVM: arm64: Implement KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY
  2026-08-25 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH v42 1/7] Documentation/firmware: add imx/se to other_interfaces
  2026-08-24 · <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 11/13] drm/panic: Internalize panic locking in DRM core and helpers
  2026-08-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 12/13] drm/panic: Move panic display code into helper library
  2026-08-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• WARM3d [PATCH v41 1/7] Documentation/firmware: add imx/se to other_interfaces
  2026-08-24 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4] arm64: errata: Add NXP iMX8QM workaround for A53 cache coherency issue
  2026-08-24 · Peng Fan (OSS) <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v40 1/7] Documentation/firmware: add imx/se to other_interfaces
  2026-08-21 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 06/14] perf auxtrace: Turn Intel BTS snapshot search into a generic one
  2026-08-21 · James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v39 1/7] Documentation/firmware: add imx/se to other_interfaces
  2026-08-21 · <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v38 1/7] Documentation/firmware: add imx/se to other_interfaces
  2026-08-19 · <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v37 1/7] Documentation/firmware: add imx/se to other_interfaces
  2026-08-19 · Pankaj Gupta via B4 Relay <devnull+pankaj.gupta.nxp.com@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH 10/12] drm/panic: Internalize panic locking in DRM core and helpers
  2026-08-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COOLING6d [PATCH 11/12] drm/panic: Move panic display code into helper library
  2026-08-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 5/5] Documentation: coresight: Document context-sensitive PGO workflow
  2026-08-17 · Amir Ayupov <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v36 1/7] Documentation/firmware: add imx/se to other_interfaces
  2026-08-17 · Pankaj Gupta via B4 Relay <devnull+pankaj.gupta.oss.nxp.com@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v4] watchdog: sbsa_gwdt: add early_enable module parameter
  2026-08-17 · Zexin Wang <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [RFC PATCH 2/3] Documentation/arch/arm64: document arm_cpumod
  2026-08-17 · KobaK <hidden>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [RFC PATCH v6 2/3] Documentation/arch/arm64: document arm_cpumod
  2026-08-17 · KobaK <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v10 23/24] [RFC] Documentation: Add SCMI System Telemetry documentation
  2026-08-15 · Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH v10 22/24] docs: ioctl-number: Add SCMI Ioctls
  2026-08-15 · Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v9 23/24] [RFC] Documentation: Add SCMI System Telemetry documentation
  2026-08-15 · Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v9 22/24] docs: ioctl-number: Add SCMI Ioctls
  2026-08-15 · Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 03/23] mtd: spi-nor: Refactor Read Status/Write Status support
  2026-08-13 · Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v14 07/12] net: Document PCS subsystem
  2026-08-13 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 2/3] efi: Pass EFI boot memmap struct address to core kernel
  2026-08-13 · Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v3] watchdog: sbsa_gwdt: add early_enable module parameter
  2026-08-13 · Zexin Wang <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v2] watchdog: sbsa_gwdt: add early_enable module parameter
  2026-08-13 · Zexin Wang <hidden>

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.

• STALE184d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v8 20/20] drm/bridge: Document bridge chain format selection
  2026-02-16 · Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 23/36] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Support GICv5 interrupts with KVM_IRQ_LINE
  2026-02-26 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v5 27/36] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Mandate architected PPI for PMU emulation on GICv5
  2026-02-26 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 33/36] Documentation: KVM: Introduce documentation for VGICv5
  2026-02-26 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 35/36] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Communicate userspace-driveable PPIs via a UAPI
  2026-02-26 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v9 19/19] drm/bridge: Document bridge chain format selection
  2026-02-27 · Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE171d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v10 22/22] drm/bridge: Document bridge chain format selection
  2026-03-05 · Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE99d REVIEWED: 39 (39M) [PATCH v2 5/6] gpio: remove machine hogs
  2026-03-09 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 26/39] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Support GICv5 interrupts with KVM_IRQ_LINE
  2026-03-17 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v6 30/39] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Mandate architected PPI for PMU emulation on GICv5
  2026-03-17 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 2 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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH 2/4] phy: s32g: Add serdes subsystem phy
  2026-01-30 · "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
• COLD45d [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: add ABI documentation for /sys/kernel/hwerr_recovery_stats/
  2026-02-02 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE202d [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: soc cache: Add documentation to HiSilicon SoC cache
  2026-02-03 · Yushan Wang <wangyushan12@huawei.com>
• STALE182d [PATCH v4 40/41] arm_mpam: Quirk CMN-650's CSU NRDY behaviour
  2026-02-03 · Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
• STALE198d [PATCH v7 2/4] docs: driver-api: gpio: generic gpio driver over rpmsg bus
  2026-02-10 · Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@nxp.com>
• STALE198d [PATCH v7 2/4] docs: driver-api: gpio: rpmsg gpio driver over rpmsg bus
  2026-02-10 · Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@nxp.com>
• STALE196d [PATCH v7 2/4] docs: driver-api: gpio: rpmsg gpio driver over rpmsg bus
  2026-02-10 · Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@nxp.com>
• STALE181d [PATCH v8 1/4] docs: driver-api: gpio: rpmsg gpio driver over rpmsg bus
  2026-02-12 · Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@nxp.com>
• STALE174d [PATCH v2 1/8] perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Rename doc to Tegra241
  2026-02-18 · Besar Wicaksono <hidden>
• STALE167d [PATCH v5 40/41] arm_mpam: Quirk CMN-650's CSU NRDY behaviour
  2026-02-24 · Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>