networking drivers · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
• M Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• M Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• M Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/
• F Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
• F drivers/connector/
• F drivers/net/
• F drivers/ptp/
• F drivers/s390/net/
• F include/dt-bindings/net/
• F include/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/linux/etherdevice.h
• F include/linux/ethtool_netlink.h
• F include/linux/fcdevice.h
• F include/linux/fddidevice.h
• F include/linux/if_*
• F include/linux/inetdevice.h
• F include/linux/netdev*
• F include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink*
• F include/uapi/linux/if_*
• F include/uapi/linux/net_shaper.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netdev*
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/bluetooth/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/
• X drivers/net/can/
• X drivers/net/wireless/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] netconsole: Support messages ratelimit-ing
  2026-09-10 13:46 · 3 replies in 7d · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v7 net-next 0/7] ptp: Add PHC timestamp quality attributes
  2026-09-09 07:32 · 5 replies in 7d · Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@amazon.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next v14 0/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: devlink flash and rescue
  2026-09-09 18:47 · 3 replies in 7d · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v27 net-next 00/10] nbl driver for Nebulamatrix NICs
  2026-09-07 12:39 · 10 replies in 7d · illusion.wang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [iwl-next v13] ice: add support for unmanaged DPLL on E830 NIC
  2026-09-10 12:56 · 0 replies in 7d · Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@intel.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net-next v13 0/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: devlink flash and rescue
  2026-09-07 18:38 · 3 replies in 7d · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH iwl-next v2 0/4] intel: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-07 09:55 · 3 replies in 7d · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 0/2] net: fix typos and repeated words in comments
  2026-09-07 06:45 · 1 reply in 7d · Hemanth Selam <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
  7 attestations (6 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-03
• Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
  6 attestations (6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-09
• Amit Bernstein <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-09
• David Woodhouse <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-09
• Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
  3 attestations (2 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-01
• Wu Di <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-17
• Teng Peisen <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-17
• Aleksandr Loktionov <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Paul Menzel <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-01

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] netconsole: allow configuring the rate limit burst through configfs
  2026-09-10 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] netconsole: allow configuring the rate limit interval through configfs
  2026-09-10 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] netconsole: add a per-target message rate limit
  2026-09-10 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [iwl-next v13] ice: add support for unmanaged DPLL on E830 NIC
  2026-09-10 · Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@intel.com>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v14 5/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: recover switch stuck in MCUboot rescue mode
  2026-09-09 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v14 4/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: add devlink flash_update and info_get
  2026-09-09 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v14 2/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: add SMDIO clause-22 register access
  2026-09-09 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 net-next 7/7] net: ena: Implement gettimexattrs64 callback for PTP attributes
  2026-09-09 · Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@amazon.com>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 net-next 6/7] net: ena: Add error bound to PHC communication layer
  2026-09-09 · Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@amazon.com>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 net-next 5/7] net: ena: Update PHC admin interface for error bound support
  2026-09-09 · Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@amazon.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH v7 net-next 4/7] ptp: ptp_vmclock: Implement attributes ioctls
  2026-09-09 · Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@amazon.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH v7 net-next 1/7] ptp: Add ioctls for PHC timestamps with quality attributes
  2026-09-09 · Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@amazon.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net-next v13 5/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: recover switch stuck in MCUboot rescue mode
  2026-09-07 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net-next v13 4/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: add devlink flash_update and info_get
  2026-09-07 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v13 2/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: add SMDIO clause-22 register access
  2026-09-07 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v27 net-next 10/10] net/nebula-matrix: add common dev start/stop operation
  2026-09-07 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v27 net-next 09/10] net/nebula-matrix: add common/ctrl dev init/remove operation
  2026-09-07 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v27 net-next 07/10] net/nebula-matrix: dispatch: add control-level routing core infrastructure
  2026-09-07 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v27 net-next 08/10] net/nebula-matrix: dispatch: implement channel RPC framework and serialize hardware ops
  2026-09-07 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v27 net-next 05/10] net/nebula-matrix: add intr resource implementation
  2026-09-07 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v27 net-next 04/10] net/nebula-matrix: add common resource implementation
  2026-09-07 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v27 net-next 02/10] net/nebula-matrix: add core driver architecture and HW layer initialization
  2026-09-07 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v27 net-next 03/10] net/nebula-matrix: add channel layer
  2026-09-07 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v27 net-next 06/10] net/nebula-matrix: add chip-wide hardware init/deinit implementation
  2026-09-07 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v27 net-next 01/10] net/nebula-matrix: add minimum nbl build framework
  2026-09-07 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH iwl-next v2 2/4] ice: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH iwl-next v2 3/4] ixgbevf: fix typo "enble" in comment
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH iwl-next v2 1/4] i40e: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 1/2] net: intel: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v4 6/7] netconsole: move struct inet_addr into netconsole.c
  2026-09-03 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <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.

• STALE158d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next 13/15] ice: add support for unmanaged DPLL on E830 NIC
  2026-03-30 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE137d REVIEWED: 4 (2M) [PATCH iwl-next v7 14/14] ixd: add devlink support
  2026-04-28 · Larysa Zaremba <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE89d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH iwl-next v12] ice: add support for unmanaged DPLL on E830 NIC
  2026-05-08 · Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@intel.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE110d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next V2 2/2] net/mlx5: implement max_sfs parameter
  2026-05-19 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next 3/3] net/mlx5: Apply devlink default eswitch mode during init
  2026-05-21 · Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com> · 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.

• STALE194d [PATCH net-next v2 10/10] net/mlx5: Add a shared devlink instance for PFs on same chip
  2026-02-25 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• STALE192d [PATCH v5 net-next 10/11] net/nebula-matrix: add common/ctrl dev init/reinit operation
  2026-02-26 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• STALE192d [PATCH v5 net-next 07/11] net/nebula-matrix: add intr resource implementation
  2026-02-26 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• STALE192d [PATCH v5 net-next 09/11] net/nebula-matrix: add Dispatch layer implementation
  2026-02-26 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH net-next v3 13/13] net/mlx5: Add a shared devlink instance for PFs on same chip
  2026-03-04 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• STALE190d [PATCH v6 net-next 03/11] net/nebula-matrix: add chip related definitions
  2026-03-06 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH v6 net-next 04/11] net/nebula-matrix: channel msg value and msg struct
  2026-03-06 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH v6 net-next 11/11] net/nebula-matrix: add common dev start/stop operation
  2026-03-06 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH v6 net-next 06/11] net/nebula-matrix: add common resource implementation
  2026-03-06 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• STALE190d [PATCH v6 net-next 08/11] net/nebula-matrix: add vsi resource implementation
  2026-03-06 · illusion.wang <hidden>