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Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-ext4 (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING11d [PATCH] ext4, doc: remove unnecessary bracket
  2026-09-02 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD40d IN MM: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2] mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files
  2026-08-03 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD43d [PATCH] mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files
  2026-07-30 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 22/22] Documentation: iomap: update docs to reflect iomap_iter_next model
  2026-07-29 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• COLD46d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4 21/21] Documentation: iomap: update docs to reflect iomap_iter_next model
  2026-07-27 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
• COLD46d [RFC PATCH 8/9] ext4: document inline_data deprecation
  2026-07-27 · Yun Zhou <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH 6/6] blk-crypto: Update docs for blk-crypto-fallback motivation
  2026-07-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD55d [PATCH 5/6] blk-crypto: Remove unused function blk_crypto_config_supported()
  2026-07-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD55d [PATCH 4/6] fscrypt: Update docs for data path
  2026-07-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD33d [PATCH v3 06/17] Documentation: fscrypt: Update docs for inlinecrypt
  2026-07-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD33d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 04/17] fscrypt: Fully disallow IV_INO_LBLK_32 with s_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE
  2026-07-13 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE70d [PATCH v2 06/17] Documentation: fscrypt: Update docs for inlinecrypt
  2026-07-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 04/17] fscrypt: Fully disallow IV_INO_LBLK_32 with s_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE
  2026-07-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD52d linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
  2026-06-26 · dardaoe <hidden>
• STALE79d [PATCH 04/16] fscrypt: Fully disallow IV_INO_LBLK_32 with s_blocksize != PAGE_SIZE
  2026-06-24 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE79d [PATCH 05/16] fscrypt: Always use blk-crypto for contents on block-based filesystems
  2026-06-24 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE74d [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Add CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING to clean up kernel.h
  2026-06-21 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• STALE112d REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [PATCH v6 v6 3/3] ext4: allow controlling mballoc stats through proc mb_stats
  2026-05-24 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [PATCH v5 v5 3/3] ext4: allow controlling mballoc stats through proc mb_stats
  2026-05-22 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• STALE118d [PATCH 03/12] swap,fs: move swapfile operations to struct file_operations
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE118d [PATCH 02/12] swap: move boilerplate code into the core swap code
  2026-05-12 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE128d REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [PATCH v4 v4 3/3] ext4: allow controlling mballoc stats through proc mb_stats
  2026-05-08 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH] dept: update documentation function names to match implementation
  2026-04-28 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• STALE139d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v3 v3 2/2] ext4: allow clearing mballoc stats through mb_stats
  2026-04-22 · Baolin Liu <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <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.

• STALE139d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v3 v3 2/2] ext4: allow clearing mballoc stats through mb_stats
  2026-04-22 · Baolin Liu <hidden> · 4 Reviewed-by
• STALE112d REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [PATCH v6 v6 3/3] ext4: allow controlling mballoc stats through proc mb_stats
  2026-05-24 · Baolin Liu <hidden> · 6 Reviewed-by
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 22/22] Documentation: iomap: update docs to reflect iomap_iter_next model
  2026-07-29 · Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.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.

• STALE170d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE170d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE70d [PATCH v2 06/17] Documentation: fscrypt: Update docs for inlinecrypt
  2026-07-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>