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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH v6 00/24] netfs: Keep track of folios in a segmented bio_vec[] chain
  2026-07-16 10:33 · 1 reply in 7d · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v14 00/15] net: introduce QUIC infrastructure and core subcomponents
  2026-07-15 20:32 · 1 reply in 7d · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-15

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH v6 21/24] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-07-16 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v14 02/15] net: build socket infrastructure for QUIC protocol
  2026-07-15 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v5 18/21] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-07-06 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD31d [PATCH v4 26/30] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-06-16 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH v3 19/22] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-06-08 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v13 02/15] net: build socket infrastructure for QUIC protocol
  2026-06-07 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COLD44d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v12 02/15] net: build socket infrastructure for QUIC protocol
  2026-05-31 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• COLD43d [PATCH v2 18/21] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-05-18 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD60d [PATCH 03/12] swap,fs: move swapfile operations to struct file_operations
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• COLD60d [PATCH 02/12] swap: move boilerplate code into the core swap code
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE63d [PATCH v2 11/11] docs: smb: document SMB3 over QUIC setup for cifs.ko and ksmbd.ko
  2026-04-28 · Henrique Carvalho <hidden>
• STALE94d [PATCH 23/26] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-26 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE113d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v11 02/15] net: build socket infrastructure for QUIC protocol
  2026-03-25 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• STALE112d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE115d [RFC PATCH 15/17] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE135d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v10 02/15] net: build socket infrastructure for QUIC protocol
  2026-02-25 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• STALE162d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v9 02/15] net: build socket infrastructure for QUIC protocol
  2026-02-02 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• STALE165d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v8 02/15] net: build socket infrastructure for QUIC protocol
  2026-01-26 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• STALE177d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 02/31] exportfs: add new EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE177d [PATCH v2 01/31] Documentation: document EXPORT_OP_NOLOCKS
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE178d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v7 02/16] net: build socket infrastructure for QUIC protocol
  2026-01-15 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
• STALE134d [PATCH 23/24] filelock: default to returning -EINVAL when ->setlease operation is NULL
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE190d [PATCH net-next v6 02/16] net: build socket infrastructure for QUIC protocol
  2026-01-05 · Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>

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: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 02/31] exportfs: add new EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 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.

• STALE115d [RFC PATCH 15/17] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE112d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE94d [PATCH 23/26] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-26 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>