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

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• F Documentation/maintainer/
• F Documentation/process/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH] Doc: process: Getting rid of OProfile url enlisting
  2026-08-15 22:01 · 0 replies in 7d · Bhaskar Chowdhury <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 0/5] Docs: changes.rst: Rework
  2026-08-12 12:29 · 4 replies in 7d · Manuel Ebner <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-21

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH] Doc: process: Getting rid of OProfile url enlisting
  2026-08-15 · Bhaskar Chowdhury <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 5/5] Docs: software-requirements.rst replace optional tag with footnotes
  2026-08-12 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 3/5] Docs: software-requirements.rst: add lzop, lzma and ip-route2
  2026-08-12 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 2/5] Docs: software-requirements.rst: Refine language
  2026-08-12 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 1/5] Docs: changes.rst: rename file and references and add links
  2026-08-12 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COOLING10d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH] Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Mention expectation about dt-check-style
  2026-08-03 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 5/5] docs: security-bugs: clarify some mandatory steps for AI reports
  2026-08-02 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 4/5] docs: coding-assistant: explain important steps when looking for bugs
  2026-08-02 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 3/5] docs: security-bugs: clarify what counts as a valid version
  2026-08-02 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 1/5] docs: threat-model: clarify "security bug" vs "vulnerability"
  2026-08-02 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 2/5] docs: threat-model: move fake devices out of "non production use"
  2026-08-02 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• COOLING14d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: kmemleak: document the conditional min_unref_scans default
  2026-07-31 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH] coccinelle: update Coccinelle website URL
  2026-07-30 · 相浦彰 / AIURA，AKIRA <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH] checkpatch: warn about possible missing gitignore coverage in selftests
  2026-07-28 · Cihan Karadag <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH v4 4/5] Documentation: add kconfirm
  2026-07-27 · Julian Braha <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH] checkpatch: Validate committer sign-off
  2026-07-24 · Bjorn Andersson <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: Add my name to the Kernel Driver Statement
  2026-07-24 · Nicolas Schier <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: Add my name to the Kernel Enforcement Statement
  2026-07-24 · Nicolas Schier <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v4] docs: dt: maintainer: Add Devicetree and OF maintainer profile document
  2026-07-21 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH v3] docs: dt: maintainer: Add Devicetree and OF maintainer profile document
  2026-07-20 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v3] Documentation: add SPDX license identifiers to RST files
  2026-07-18 · Yahya Toubali <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH 5/5] Documentation: add SPDX license identifiers to RST files
  2026-07-18 · Yahya Toubali <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH 5/5] Documentation: add SPDX license identifiers to RST files
  2026-07-18 · Yahya Toubali <hidden>
• COLD25d [RFC PATCH v2 13/13] Documentation/dev-tools: document KWatch
  2026-07-17 · Jinchao Wang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/1] CodingStyle: clarify variable naming rules
  2026-07-15 · Alexey Dobriyan <hidden>
• COLD33d [RFC PATCH 13/13] Documentation/dev-tools: document KWatch
  2026-07-14 · Jinchao Wang <hidden>
• COOLING5d IN LINUX-NEXT: 3 (3M) [PATCH 2/4] mm: kmemleak: report leaks only after N consecutive unreferenced scans
  2026-07-13 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD37d [PATCH v3 01/26] kernel: Introduce meminspect
  2026-07-08 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• COLD26d Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-07 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• COLD26d Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-07 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE152d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v6 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-03-17 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE115d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE96d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v8 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE97d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v9 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-08 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE68d REVIEWED: 20 (20M) [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-09 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE95d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v10 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-13 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE94d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v12 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v13 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD46d REVIEWED: 20 (20M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v4] docs: dt: maintainer: Add Devicetree and OF maintainer profile document
  2026-07-21 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Doc:dev-tools Added Gentoo in Operating System list under Getting Coccinelle
  2026-02-22 · Bhaskar Chowdhury <hidden>
• STALE172d [PATCH v2 1/2] workflow: process/changes.rst: sort list
  2026-02-26 · Hans Anda <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Documentation: fix type'must to be raised' -> 'must be raised' in embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
  2026-02-28 · Ariful Islam Shoikot <hidden>
• STALE166d [PATCH v3 1/2] workflow: process/changes.rst: sort and cleanup list
  2026-03-02 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: Remove a useless top-of-file label
  2026-03-03 · Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• STALE159d [PATCH v11 15/15] docs: Update KASAN and x86 memory map documentations
  2026-03-10 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• STALE131d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 4/4] Documentation: gcov: document MC/DC condition coverage support
  2026-03-14 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 3/3] docs: process: fix grammatical errors in 2.Process.rst
  2026-03-15 · Kit Dallege <hidden>
• STALE146d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>