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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH -next] docs: submitting-patches: Fix section structure around DCO
  2026-07-02 10:44 · 0 replies in 7d · Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC] coding-assistants: simplify attribution
  2026-07-01 15:54 · 0 replies in 7d · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: kunit: Test Kconfig entries shouldn't select other configs
  2026-06-27 08:29 · 1 reply in 7d · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/2] mm/kmemleak: add min_unref_scans to suppress transient false positives
  2026-06-26 15:53 · 1 reply in 7d · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH -next] docs: submitting-patches: Fix section structure around DCO
  2026-07-02 · Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH RFC] coding-assistants: simplify attribution
  2026-07-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: kunit: Fix outdated FAQ entries
  2026-06-27 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• WARM2d [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: kunit: Test Kconfig entries shouldn't select other configs
  2026-06-27 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/2] mm/kmemleak: report leaks only after N consecutive unreferenced scans
  2026-06-26 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH] Documentation: dev-tools: scripts/container prefers Podman
  2026-06-24 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Add CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING to clean up kernel.h
  2026-06-21 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] docs: kgdb: Fix path of driver options
  2026-06-20 · Zenghui Yu <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH] kselftest docs: remove reference to obsolete/archived wiki
  2026-06-17 · Rafael Passos <hidden>
• COOLING8d [RFC PATCH 2/2] kasan: hw_tags: Add boot option to elide free time poisoning
  2026-06-12 · Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
• COLD19d [RFC PATCH v2 14/14] Documentation: add kcov-dataflow.rst
  2026-06-11 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH] Documentation: process: fix brackets
  2026-06-11 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD19d [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] kcov: add recursion guard and documentation for kcov-dataflow
  2026-06-03 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH net-next] docs: exclude driver and netdevsim bugs
  2026-06-03 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• COLD30d [PATCH v1] docs: kgdb: Fix stale source file paths
  2026-05-31 · Costa Shulyupin <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 11/11] kernel/api: add syscall enter/exit tracepoints
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD33d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD33d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD33d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD33d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COOLING14d [PATCH] Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc
  2026-05-29 · Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
• COLD33d [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update ndesaulniers
  2026-05-28 · Nick Desaulniers <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH] docs: changes.rst: restore pahole 1.26 minimum (regressed by sort)
  2026-05-26 · Zhan Xusheng <hidden>
• COLD37d REVIEWED: 51 (50M) [PATCH v2] docs: submitting-patches: Clarify that "reviewer" is a person
  2026-05-20 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD45d [PATCH v2] docs: dt: maintainer: Add Devicetree and OF maintainer profile document
  2026-05-18 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH] docs: dt: maintainer: Add Devicetree and OF maintainer profile document
  2026-05-18 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture
  2026-05-18 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 01/16] kbuild: Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1
  2026-05-17 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• COLD37d [PATCH] docs: threat-model: add missing closing parenthesis
  2026-05-17 · Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>

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.

• STALE148d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] docs: maintainer-pgp-guide.rst: updated kernel.org link
  2026-02-03 · Amitabh Srivastava <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE105d 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
• STALE68d 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
• COLD50d 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
• COLD50d 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
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [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
• COLD49d 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
• COLD47d 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
• COOLING6d 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
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [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

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 v3] docs: improve introduction wording in howto.rst
  2025-12-07 · ᴋᴀʀᴛɪᴋ sʜᴀʜ <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5] docs: improve introduction wording in howto.rst
  2025-12-08 · ᴋᴀʀᴛɪᴋ sʜᴀʜ <hidden>
• STALE195d [RFC PATCH v5 01/15] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE195d [RFC PATCH v5 04/15] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE130d [PATCH RESEND 3/3] Documentation: Coccinelle: document debug log handling
  2026-01-06 · Benjamin Philip <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix typos and grammatical errors
  2026-01-12 · Nauman Sabir <hidden>
• STALE164d Re: [PATCH] rust: conclude the Rust experiment
  2026-01-13 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE162d [PATCH 6/9] docs: kdoc: move kernel-doc to tools/docs
  2026-01-19 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Doc:dev-tools Added Gentoo in Operating System list under Getting Coccinelle
  2026-02-22 · Bhaskar Chowdhury <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH v2 1/2] workflow: process/changes.rst: sort list
  2026-02-26 · Hans Anda <hidden>