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 v4 0/7] net: wwan: t9xx: Add MediaTek T9XX WWAN driver
  2026-07-09 10:53 · 6 replies in 7d · Jack Wu via B4 Relay <devnull+jackbb_wu.compal.com@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH v4 net-next 00/14] net: enetc: cleanups and improvements
  2026-07-07 08:48 · 14 replies in 7d · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: phy: mediatek: calibration for AN7581/3
  2026-07-08 10:24 · 5 replies in 7d · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next 0/6] net/stmmac: Add Mediatek MT8189 support
  2026-07-07 08:22 · 6 replies in 7d · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH nf-next v5 0/6] Add IPv4 over IPv6 and SIT flowtable SW acceleration
  2026-07-09 08:52 · 1 reply in 7d · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v10 0/4] net: stmmac: eic7700: add eth1 variant support and update delay bindings
  2026-07-07 06:43 · 4 replies in 7d · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v3 0/2] net/stmmac: Fix panic during interface shutdown & apply STMMAC_DOWN flag
  2026-07-07 17:46 · 2 replies in 7d · Jakub Raczynski <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net 0/2] net/stmmac: Verify more wrong DTS configuration
  2026-07-07 17:44 · 2 replies in 7d · Jakub Raczynski <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 0/2] net/stmmac: Secure against failures of DMA memory allocation
  2026-07-07 17:41 · 2 replies in 7d · Jakub Raczynski <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] net: airoha: Fix DMA direction for NPU mailbox buffer
  2026-07-08 11:36 · 0 replies in 7d · Wayen Yan <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Madhur Agrawal <hidden>
  10 attestations (10 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-03
• Steen Hegelund <Steen.Hegelund@microchip.com>
  9 attestations (9 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-12
• Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
  8 attestations (8 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@microchip.com>
  8 attestations (8 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-12
• Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
  7 attestations (7 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-07
• Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
  5 attestations (5 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-03
• Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
  5 attestations (5 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-03
• Chang-Sub Lee <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-07-07
• Sashiko AI <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-07
• Joe Damato <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-20

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 2/7] net: wwan: t9xx: Add control plane transaction layer
  2026-07-09 · Jack Wu via B4 Relay <devnull+jackbb_wu.compal.com@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 1/7] net: wwan: t9xx: Add PCIe core
  2026-07-09 · Jack Wu via B4 Relay <devnull+jackbb_wu.compal.com@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 4/7] net: wwan: t9xx: Add control port
  2026-07-09 · Jack Wu via B4 Relay <devnull+jackbb_wu.compal.com@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 3/7] net: wwan: t9xx: Add control DMA interface
  2026-07-09 · Jack Wu via B4 Relay <devnull+jackbb_wu.compal.com@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 6/7] net: wwan: t9xx: Add AT & MBIM WWAN ports
  2026-07-09 · Jack Wu via B4 Relay <devnull+jackbb_wu.compal.com@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 5/7] net: wwan: t9xx: Add FSM thread
  2026-07-09 · Jack Wu via B4 Relay <devnull+jackbb_wu.compal.com@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH nf-next v5 1/6] net: netfilter: add ether_type to net_device_path_ctx
  2026-07-09 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] net: airoha: Fix DMA direction for NPU mailbox buffer
  2026-07-08 · Wayen Yan <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net] net: airoha: Fix potential use-after-free in airoha_ppe_deinit()
  2026-07-08 · Wayen Yan <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 4/5] net: phy: mediatek: add calibration logic for AN7581
  2026-07-08 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 5/5] net: phy: mediatek: add calibration logic for AN7583
  2026-07-08 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 3/5] net: phy: mediatek: split Airoha code to dedicated source
  2026-07-08 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: phy: mediatek: move MTK GE SoC registers define to dedicated header
  2026-07-08 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: phy: mediatek: export __mtk_tr_write
  2026-07-08 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH V3 3/4] net: xilinx: axienet: Derive RX frame length from DMA residue
  2026-07-08 · Srinivas Neeli <srinivas.neeli@amd.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net v2] net: stmmac: resume PHY before hardware setup when opening the interface
  2026-07-07 · Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v3 1/2] net/stmmac: Check for STMMAC_DOWN flag in all XDP paths
  2026-07-07 · Jakub Raczynski <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v3 2/2] net/stmmac: Fix free-after-use panic when interface goes does with XDP
  2026-07-07 · Jakub Raczynski <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net 2/2] net/stmmac: Verify provided DTS AXI setup
  2026-07-07 · Jakub Raczynski <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net 1/2] net/stmmac: Protect against zero queue DTS config
  2026-07-07 · Jakub Raczynski <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net v2 1/2] net/stmmac: Set Rx queue page_pool to NULL when freeing DMA resources
  2026-07-07 · Jakub Raczynski <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 2/2] net/stmmac: Prevent dma queue NULL free on allocation failure
  2026-07-07 · Jakub Raczynski <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] net: sparx5: configure TAS port link speed
  2026-07-07 · Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH net] net: stmmac: resume PHY before reopening the interface on MTU change
  2026-07-07 · Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
• WARM1d [PATCH net v5] net: airoha: fix MIB stats collection to be lossless
  2026-07-07 · Aniket Negi <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v4 net-next 14/14] net: enetc: use kzalloc_flex() for enetc_psfp_gate allocation
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v4 net-next 13/14] net: enetc: use alloc_etherdev_mqs() to create netdev for VF driver
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v4 net-next 12/14] net: enetc: remove redundant num_vsi field from enetc_port_caps
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v4 net-next 11/14] net: enetc: move enetc_set_si_vlan_promisc() to enetc_pf_common.c
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v4 net-next 10/14] net: enetc: refactor SI VLAN promiscuous mode configuration
  2026-07-07 · <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.

• STALE177d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v2 1/9] net: stmmac: dwmac4: remove duplicated definitions
  2026-01-08 · Russell King (Oracle) <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v2 2/9] net: stmmac: dwmac4: fix RX FIFO fill statistics
  2026-01-08 · Russell King (Oracle) <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v2 3/9] net: stmmac: dwmac4: fix PTP message type field extraction
  2026-01-08 · Russell King (Oracle) <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v2 4/9] net: stmmac: descs: fix buffer 1 off-by-one error
  2026-01-08 · Russell King (Oracle) <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next 01/14] net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: remove mac_base
  2026-01-19 · Russell King (Oracle) <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next 04/14] net: stmmac: wrap phylink's rx_clk_stop functions
  2026-01-19 · Russell King (Oracle) <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next 05/14] net: stmmac: add stmmac core serdes support
  2026-01-19 · Russell King (Oracle) <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 9 (8M) [PATCH net-next v4 1/2] dt-bindings: net: airoha: npu: Add firmware-name property
  2026-01-20 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v2 01/14] net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: remove mac_base
  2026-01-23 · Russell King (Oracle) <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v2 04/14] net: stmmac: wrap phylink's rx_clk_stop functions
  2026-01-23 · Russell King (Oracle) <hidden> · 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.

• STALE181d [PATCH v2 1/4] net: stmmac: s32: use a syscon for S32_PHY_INTF_SEL_RGMII
  2025-12-15 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• STALE205d [RFC PATCH net-next v10 1/3] net: ti: icssm-prueth: Add helper functions to configure and maintain FDB
  2025-12-16 · Parvathi Pudi <parvathi@couthit.com>
• STALE205d [RFC PATCH net-next v10 2/3] net: ti: icssm-prueth: Add switchdev support for icssm_prueth driver
  2025-12-16 · Parvathi Pudi <parvathi@couthit.com>
• STALE205d [RFC PATCH net-next v10 3/3] net: ti: icssm-prueth: Add support for ICSSM RSTP switch
  2025-12-16 · Parvathi Pudi <parvathi@couthit.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: stmmac: dwmac-rk:return actual error from phy_power_on
  2025-12-16 · Lizhe <hidden>
• STALE204d [RFC net-next v4 1/3] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: Add register definitions for RSS and LRO
  2025-12-17 · Frank Wunderlich <hidden>
• STALE204d [RFC net-next v4 2/3] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: Add RSS support
  2025-12-17 · Frank Wunderlich <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC net-next v4 3/3] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: Add LRO support
  2025-12-17 · Frank Wunderlich <hidden>
• STALE87d [RFC net-next v5 2/3] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: Add RSS support
  2025-12-19 · Frank Wunderlich <hidden>
• STALE87d [RFC net-next v5 1/3] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: Add register definitions for RSS and LRO
  2025-12-19 · Frank Wunderlich <hidden>