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Paths

• F Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH] checkpatch: warn about possible missing gitignore coverage in selftests
  2026-07-28 05:25 · 0 replies in 7d · Cihan Karadag <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH] checkpatch: Validate committer sign-off
  2026-07-24 18:56 · 0 replies in 7d · Bjorn Andersson <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-07

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH] checkpatch: warn about possible missing gitignore coverage in selftests
  2026-07-28 · Cihan Karadag <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH] checkpatch: Validate committer sign-off
  2026-07-24 · Bjorn Andersson <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH] checkpatch: warn on Rust unwrap and expect calls
  2026-07-07 · Harish-CS <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add --json output mode
  2026-04-25 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add --json output mode
  2026-04-08 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH] checkpatch: add --json output mode
  2026-04-06 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE123d [PATCH] checkpatch: allow correctly handle full files on stdin
  2026-03-26 · Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
• STALE240d REVIEWED: 24 (23M) [PATCH v7] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-12-03 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE215d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/1] docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h
  2025-11-26 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE246d [PATCH v1 1/1] docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h
  2025-11-26 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE247d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH RESEND v6] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-11-25 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE249d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-11-24 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE251d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH RESEND v4] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-11-17 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-11-07 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE267d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH RESEND v3] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-11-04 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-10-25 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE277d [PATCH v2 2/2] add check for pointers with __free attribute initialized to NULL
  2025-10-24 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE277d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/2] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-10-24 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE281d [PATCH] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-10-21 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE282d [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style
  2025-10-17 · Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
• STALE282d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: checkpatch: Align block comment style
  2025-10-17 · Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
• STALE286d [PATCH] docs: checkpatch: Align block comment style
  2025-10-17 · Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
• STALE294d [PATCH v2 2/2] checkpatch: document new check PLACEHOLDER_USE
  2025-09-17 · Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>
• STALE323d [PATCH v2 13/13] Documentation: checkpatch: Convert kernel docs references
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE331d [PATCH 14/14] Documentation: checkpatch: Convert kernel docs references
  2025-08-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE363d [PATCH] checkpatch: validate commit tag ordering
  2025-07-24 · Hendrik Hamerlinck <hidden>
• STALE382d [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] checkpatch: check for comment explaining rgmii(|-rxid|-txid) PHY modes
  2025-06-24 · Matthias Schiffer <hidden>
• STALE402d [PATCH net-next 4/4] checkpatch: check for comment explaining rgmii(|-rxid|-txid) PHY modes
  2025-04-15 · Matthias Schiffer <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RESEND v2 2/2] docs: checkpatch: Document checkpatch-ignore feature
  2025-02-17 · Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
• STALE540d [PATCH] kbuild: remove EXTRA_*FLAGS support
  2025-02-05 · Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>