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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/3] Docs/admin-guide/cgroup: update controller interface docs
  2026-07-07 10:22 · 3 replies in 7d · Guopeng Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-07 13:28 · 2 replies in 7d · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH v9 00/15] userfaultfd: working set tracking for VM guest memory
  2026-07-06 08:48 · 4 replies in 7d · Kiryl Shutsemau <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next V5 0/6] devlink: Add boot-time eswitch mode defaults
  2026-07-07 17:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday Bad wrapping in some tables
  2026-07-07 17:36 · 1 reply in 7d · Daniel Lundberg Pedersen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v8 0/3] mm: clean up folio LRU and swap declarations
  2026-07-07 16:12 · 1 reply in 7d · Jianyue Wu <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v3 0/2] docs/zh_CN: update translation of doc-guide/sphinx.rst
  2026-07-06 15:14 · 2 replies in 7d · Jiandong Qiu <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v6 0/4] kallsyms: embed source file:line info in kernel stack traces
  2026-07-06 14:29 · 2 replies in 7d · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH v1.1 00/16] mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring
  2026-07-06 14:19 · 2 replies in 7d · SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v7 00/17] AD9910 Direct Digital Synthesizer
  2026-07-07 14:04 · 1 reply in 7d · Rodrigo Alencar via B4 Relay <devnull+rodrigo.alencar.analog.com@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
  13 attestations (7 Acked-by, 6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
  9 attestations (8 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-07
• Baoquan He <hidden>
  8 attestations (4 Acked-by, 4 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-07
• David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
  8 attestations (4 Acked-by, 4 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-07
• Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
  6 attestations (2 Co-developed-by, 4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Randy Dunlap <hidden>
  5 attestations (2 Acked-by, 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
  5 attestations (2 Acked-by, 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
  4 attestations (4 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-07
• SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-03

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next V5 3/6] devlink: Parse eswitch mode boot defaults
  2026-07-07 · Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Bad wrapping in some tables
  2026-07-07 · Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 32 (32M) [PATCH v8 2/3] mm: rename swap.c to folio.c
  2026-07-07 · Jianyue Wu <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v7 17/17] docs: iio: add documentation for ad9910 driver
  2026-07-07 · Rodrigo Alencar via B4 Relay <devnull+rodrigo.alencar.analog.com@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-07 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: (pmbus) Add driver for Analog Devices MAX20912 and MAX20916
  2026-07-07 · Fred Chen <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 3/3] Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v2: note blkcg_debug_stats gates io.latency stats
  2026-07-07 · Guopeng Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/3] Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v1: document rdma.peak, rdma.events and rdma.events.local
  2026-07-07 · Guopeng Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/3] Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v2: drop stale misc interface file count
  2026-07-07 · Guopeng Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-07 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] sched_ext: Documentation: Fix ops table header reference
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2] Docs/translations/it_IT: update current minimal requirements
  2026-07-07 · Doehyun Baek <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] sched/doc: Fix stale em_pd_energy() reference in sched-energy
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] checkpatch: warn on Rust unwrap and expect calls
  2026-07-07 · Harish-CS <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 5/6] Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst: document cache interfaces
  2026-07-07 · Sourav Panda <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v7 2/5] Documentation: iio: add Open Sensor Fusion driver overview
  2026-07-07 · Jinseob Kim <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v7 1/6] alloc_tag: add ioctl to /proc/allocinfo
  2026-07-06 · Abhishek Bapat <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: thunderbolt: fix sentence structure
  2026-07-06 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v6 2/4] mm/hmm: add hmm_range_fault_unlocked() for mmap lock-drop support
  2026-07-06 · Stanislav Kinsburskii <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: pt_BR: process: Translate stable kernel rules guide
  2026-07-06 · Matheus Patriota <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] ipe: fix typo
  2026-07-06 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v4 3/3] fs/resctrl: Factor MBA parse-time conversion to be per-arch
  2026-07-06 · Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 8/8] mm: Documentation: clarify where the mTHP stats live
  2026-07-06 · Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH] docs/bpf: Document BPF_STRICT_BUILD=0 to tolerate test build failures
  2026-07-06 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3 2/2] docs/zh_CN: update sphinx.rst translation
  2026-07-06 · Jiandong Qiu <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v3 1/2] docs/zh_CN: add process/changes.rst translation
  2026-07-06 · Jiandong Qiu <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2] Documentation: Update after split of <linux/mod_devicetable.h>
  2026-07-06 · Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v4 2/3] docs: watchdog: npcm: Add reset status description
  2026-07-06 · Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@gmail.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v6 2/4] kallsyms: extend lineinfo to loadable modules
  2026-07-06 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH v6 1/4] kallsyms: embed source file:line info in kernel stack traces
  2026-07-06 · Sasha Levin <sashal@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.

• STALE180d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3] tools: jobserver: Prevent deadlock caused by incorrect jobserver configuration and enhance error reporting
  2026-01-08 · Changbin Du <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4] tools: jobserver: Prevent deadlock caused by incorrect jobserver configuration and enhance error reporting
  2026-01-08 · Changbin Du <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE164d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 9/9] platform/wmi: Update driver development guide
  2026-01-09 · Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v3 1/3] cxl, doc: Remove isonum.txt inclusion
  2026-01-12 · Robert Richter <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v3 2/3] cxl, doc: Moving conventions in separate files
  2026-01-12 · Robert Richter <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation/driver-api/cxl: ACPI PRM Address Translation Support and AMD Zen5 enablement
  2026-01-12 · Robert Richter <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH cgroup/for-6.20 v5 4/5] cgroup/cpuset: Don't invalidate sibling partitions on cpuset.cpus conflict
  2026-01-12 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE172d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2] Rework the jobserver open logic
  2026-01-14 · Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH V4 19/19] famfs_fuse: Add documentation
  2026-01-14 · John Groves <John@Groves.net> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE168d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCHv3 04/15] mm: Rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info'
  2026-01-15 · Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@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.

• STALE179d [PATCH v7 15/15] x86/kasan: Make software tag-based kasan available
  2025-12-10 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 3/3] clk: remove round_rate() clk ops
  2025-12-11 · Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 2/2] hwmon: add mp5926 driver
  2025-12-15 · Yuxi Wang <Yuxi.Wang@monolithicpower.com>
• STALE201d LANDED [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: gpio: add TCAL6408 and TCAL6416
  2025-12-16 · Jan Remmet <hidden>
• STALE174d [PATCH 03/12] Docs/mm/damon/design: update for nr_snapshots damos stat
  2025-12-16 · SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH 04/12] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for nr_snapshots damos stat
  2025-12-16 · SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH 09/12] Docs/mm/damon/design: update for max_nr_snapshots
  2025-12-16 · SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
• STALE174d [PATCH 10/12] Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for max_nr_snapshots
  2025-12-16 · SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
• STALE203d [PATCH v6 2/6] kernel-doc: add support to handle DEFINE_ variables
  2025-12-16 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6 5/6] docs: kernel-doc.rst: document the new "var" kernel-doc markup
  2025-12-16 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>