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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 0/5] agents: add skills for Fixes tags, stable tags, similar bugs, and commit messages
  2026-10-12 21:35 · 5 replies in 7d · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v12 00/40] dyndbg: Fix classmaps API for subsystems, query extensions, selftests
  2026-10-13 02:36 · 3 replies in 7d · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v10 00/18] PCI/P2PDMA: Route peer-to-peer DMA by TLP class
  2026-10-12 13:09 · 4 replies in 7d · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/2] docs: add a guide for translators
  2026-10-13 00:37 · 2 replies in 7d · Daniel Pereira <danielmaraboo@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v9 0/7] Qualcomm Sahara protocol enhancements
  2026-10-13 08:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Kishore Batta <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] ext4: spread files of sibling directories over a flex group
  2026-10-13 07:28 · 0 replies in 7d · Daejun Park <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 1/1] Documentation: hyperv: Update documentation for sending VMBus packets
  2026-10-13 01:44 · 0 replies in 7d · Michael Kelley <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] docs: translations: pt_BR: translate generated-content.rst
  2026-10-13 01:13 · 0 replies in 7d · Ygor Otavio <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] tls: refuse RX records after record-number exhaustion
  2026-10-13 00:27 · 0 replies in 7d · Rishikesh Jethwani <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3] docs: pt_BR: process: translate userspace debugging guide
  2026-10-12 23:44 · 0 replies in 7d · Igor Giamoniano <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
  18 attestations (5 Acked-by, 6 Reported-by, 3 Reviewed-by, 4 Tested-by) · last on 2026-10-05
• Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
  13 attestations (5 Reviewed-by, 8 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-10-05
• Tushar Dave <hidden>
  12 attestations (12 Tested-by) · last on 2026-10-12
• Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
  9 attestations (9 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-10-12
• Ridong Chen <ridong.chen@linux.dev>
  7 attestations (3 Reviewed-by, 4 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-22
• Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
  6 attestations (6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-10-09
• Daniel Palmer <daniel@thingy.jp>
  4 attestations (4 Tested-by) · last on 2026-10-11
• Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
  4 attestations (4 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-10-11
• Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
  4 attestations (4 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-10-11
• Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
  4 attestations (4 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-10-05

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH] ext4: spread files of sibling directories over a flex group
  2026-10-13 · Daejun Park <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v12 28/40] dyndbg: control-parser: treat comma as a token separator
  2026-10-13 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v12 30/40] dyndbg: split multi-query strings with @
  2026-10-13 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v12 32/40] docs/dyndbg: add classmap info to howto
  2026-10-13 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 1/1] Documentation: hyperv: Update documentation for sending VMBus packets
  2026-10-13 · Michael Kelley <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] docs: translations: pt_BR: translate generated-content.rst
  2026-10-13 · Ygor Otavio <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] docs: pt_BR: translate doc-guide/translations.rst
  2026-10-13 · Daniel Pereira <danielmaraboo@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/2] docs: doc-guide: add a guide for translators
  2026-10-13 · Daniel Pereira <danielmaraboo@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] tls: refuse RX records after record-number exhaustion
  2026-10-13 · Rishikesh Jethwani <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3] docs: pt_BR: process: translate userspace debugging guide
  2026-10-12 · Igor Giamoniano <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/9] kunit: Add KUNIT_CASE_PARAM_UNIQUE() and KUNIT_CASE_PARAM_WITH_INIT_UNIQUE()
  2026-10-12 · Mark <broonie@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 4/4] coresight: Add pmu_pulse/extout_pulse
  2026-10-12 · Amir Ayupov <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] vsock: add a netlink command to assign the g2h device to a netns
  2026-10-12 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 5/5] agents: add a skill to write commit messages
  2026-10-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 4/5] agents: add a skill to find other instances of a fixed bug
  2026-10-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 3/5] agents: add a skill to determine stable tags
  2026-10-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 2/5] agents: add a skill to determine Fixes tags
  2026-10-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 1/5] agents: add infrastructure for agent resources
  2026-10-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: PCI: Document aer_inject's aer_mask_override parameter
  2026-10-12 · Priyank Rathod <hidden>
• HOTtoday SUPERSEDED [PATCH v8 1/7] Add documentation for Sahara protocol
  2026-10-12 · Kishore Batta <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v7 1/2] PCI/LMR: Add Lane Margining at the Receiver debugfs interface
  2026-10-12 · Priyank Rathod <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 05/11] usb: misc: Add NVIDIA LSTP USB adapter driver
  2026-10-12 · Adrian Ambrozewicz <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] docs: pt_BR: process: translate userspace debugging guide
  2026-10-12 · Igor Giamoniano <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: rust: enable KCSAN support
  2026-10-12 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v3 1/2] error-injection: Introduce EI_ETYPE_FALSE for fail_function
  2026-10-12 · Song Chen <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v10 17/18] PCI/P2PDMA: Evaluate the ATS path for clients with ATS enabled
  2026-10-12 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v10 15/18] PCI/P2PDMA: Document TLP-class routing
  2026-10-12 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v10 05/18] PCI/P2PDMA: Document directional ACS routing
  2026-10-12 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v10 01/18] PCI/P2PDMA: Document the TLP attribute assumptions
  2026-10-12 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] scsi: ufs: docs: Describe how to test with QEMU
  2026-10-12 · Stanley Jhu <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.

• STALE193d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v7 4/4] RISC-V: KVM: add KVM_CAP_RISCV_SET_HGATP_MODE +3 more in this series
  2026-04-02 · <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE188d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 2/2] PCI: s390: Expose the UID as an arch specific PCI slot attribute
  2026-04-02 · Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE186d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v9 10/10] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-04-03 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE188d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v7 2/2] PCI: s390: Expose the UID as an arch specific PCI slot attribute
  2026-04-07 · Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE154d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v19 2/2] ras: mem: Add ACPI RAS2 memory driver +1 more in this series
  2026-04-08 · <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE187d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v13 08/36] docs/dyndbg: explain flags parse 1st +35 more in this series
  2026-04-08 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE185d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v12 24/25] drm/bridge: Document bridge chain format selection
  2026-04-09 · Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE185d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 1/4] docs/zh_CN: update rust/arch-support.rst translation +3 more in this series
  2026-04-10 · Ben Guo <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE182d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v13 26/27] drm/bridge: Document bridge chain format selection
  2026-04-13 · Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE179d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v10 12/12] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-04-14 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-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.

• STALE194d [PATCH v3 19/27] mtd: spi-nor: Add steps for testing locking support
  2026-03-17 · Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
• STALE194d [PATCH v3 21/27] mtd: spi-nor: Add steps for testing locking with CMP
  2026-03-17 · Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
• STALE209d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.1] usb: core: new quirk to handle devices with zero configurations
  2026-03-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE204d LANDED [PATCH v2 3/5] docs: reporting-issues: add conclusion to the step-by-step guide
  2026-03-17 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
• STALE204d LANDED [PATCH v2 2/5] docs: reporting-issues: tweak the reference section intro
  2026-03-17 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
• STALE204d LANDED [PATCH v2 5/5] docs: reporting-issues: create a proper appendix explaining specialties
  2026-03-17 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
• STALE204d LANDED [PATCH v2 4/5] docs: verify-bugs-… and quickly-build-…: improve feedback section
  2026-03-17 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
• STALE204d LANDED [PATCH v2 1/5] docs: reporting-issues: mention text is best viewed rendered
  2026-03-17 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
• STALE209d Re: [PATCH v2 00/28] kernel-doc: use a C lexical tokenizer for transforms
  2026-03-17 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE204d LANDED [PATCH v3 01/22] docs: python: add helpers to run unit tests +21 more in this series
  2026-03-17 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>