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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING4d [PATCH v5] efivarfs: add nostatfs mount option to skip QueryVariableInfo()
  2026-10-05 23:24 · 0 replies in 7d · Prashant Singh <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-10-05
• Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
  3 attestations (3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-10-05
• Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-23
• Manuel Ebner <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-23

Recent patches

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

• COOLING4d [PATCH v5] efivarfs: add nostatfs mount option to skip QueryVariableInfo()
  2026-10-05 · Prashant Singh <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v2 07/15] efi/libstub: Add generic arch callbacks for DRTM
  2026-10-02 · Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
• COOLING8d [PATCH RFC v4 13/13] drm/client: splash: document the image sources and parameters
  2026-10-01 · Màxim Pedraza Padilla <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH RFC v4 05/13] drm: docs: remove bootsplash from TODO
  2026-10-01 · Màxim Pedraza Padilla <hidden>
• COOLING5d [RFC 12/12] arm64: tlbid: Add documentation
  2026-10-01 · Kristina Martšenko <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4] efivarfs: add nostatfs mount option to skip QueryVariableInfo()
  2026-09-28 · Prashant Singh <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v3] efivarfs: add nostatfs mount option to skip QueryVariableInfo()
  2026-09-25 · Prashant Singh <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH 08/16] efi/libstub: Add generic arch callbacks for DRTM
  2026-09-24 · Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
• COLD16d IN LINUX-NEXT: 15 (14M) [PATCH v4 22/22] kbuild: compress the kernel with pigz if available
  2026-09-23 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD16d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 4/4] kho: rename kho_scratch= commandline parameter to kho_bootmem=
  2026-09-22 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COLD16d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v3 3/4] kho: rename KHO scratch to KHO bootmem
  2026-09-22 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH v2] efivarfs: add nostatfs mount option to skip QueryVariableInfo()
  2026-09-19 · Prashant Singh <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH v3 20/20] kbuild: compress the kernel with pigz if available
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD22d [PATCH] efivarfs: avoid slow QueryVariableInfo() in statfs()
  2026-09-17 · Prashant Singh <hidden>
• COLD18d Re: [PATCH v2 21/21] kbuild: use pigz for gzip compression if available
  2026-09-14 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH v2 21/21] kbuild: use pigz for gzip compression if available
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH v2 18/21] kbuild: rust: optionally parallelise rustc front end
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD26d [PATCH 23/23] kbuild: use pigz for gzip compression if available
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD32d [PATCH v2 4/4] kho: rename kho_scratch= commandline parameter to kho_bootmem=
  2026-09-08 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COLD32d [PATCH v2 3/4] kho: rename KHO scratch to KHO bootmem
  2026-09-08 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COLD54d [PATCH 2/3] efi: Pass EFI boot memmap struct address to core kernel
  2026-08-13 · Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH 4/4] kho: rename kho_scratch= commandline parameter to kho_bootmem=
  2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH 3/4] kho: rename KHO scratch to KHO bootmem
  2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COLD57d LANDED [PATCH v2] Documentation: Extend the real-time hardware bits with some firmware bits
  2026-07-18 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE82d [PATCH RESEND] Documentation: admin-guide: fix a doc for efi_no_storage_paranoia the "5KB" instead of the "50%"
  2026-07-10 · Koki Iwata <hidden>
• STALE95d [PATCH 06/17] arm64/booting: Document boot requirements for FEAT_NMI
  2026-07-03 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• COLD32d [PATCH] mefi: add dynamic control interface for EFI runtime services
  2026-07-03 · Junxiao Chang <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH] Documentation: Extend the real-time hardware bits with some firmware bits
  2026-07-01 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE115d [PATCH 19/19] docs: document discoverable root partitions
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE143d [PATCH v16 38/38] x86/boot: Legacy boot DRTM support for Secure Launch
  2026-05-15 · Ross Philipson <hidden>

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.

• STALE166d [PATCH v2 01/19] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE166d [PATCH v2 02/19] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE166d [PATCH v2 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE162d [PATCH v3 01/19] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE162d [PATCH v3 02/19] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-04-27 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE115d [PATCH 19/19] docs: document discoverable root partitions
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH 3/4] kho: rename KHO scratch to KHO bootmem
  2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COLD53d [PATCH 4/4] kho: rename kho_scratch= commandline parameter to kho_bootmem=
  2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>