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Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD39d Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-07 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• COLD39d Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-07 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH] docs: link AI coding assistants and tool-generated content pages
  2026-07-02 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD39d [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution
  2026-07-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• COLD46d [PATCH RFC] coding-assistants: simplify attribution
  2026-07-01 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 11/11] kernel/api: add syscall enter/exit tracepoints
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE93d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE93d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE93d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE93d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH v6 07/11] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH] dept: update documentation function names to match implementation
  2026-04-28 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH v3 4/9] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH v3 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH v3 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH v3 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE159d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE159d [PATCH v2 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE159d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE144d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE144d [PATCH 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE144d [PATCH 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE118d Re: [syzbot] [mm?] [f2fs?] [exfat?] memory leak in __kfree_rcu_sheaf
  2026-03-10 · Harry Yoo <hidden>
• STALE118d Re: [syzbot] [mm?] [f2fs?] [exfat?] memory leak in __kfree_rcu_sheaf
  2026-03-09 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
• COLD55d Re: [PATCH v18 25/42] dept: add documents for dept
  2025-12-06 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH v18 25/42] dept: add documents for dept
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE319d [PATCH v5] NFSD: Add a subsystem policy document
  2025-10-14 · Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
• STALE383d [PATCH v5 12/15] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework
  2025-07-17 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE410d [PATCH v4 12/15] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework
  2025-06-26 · Thomas Weißschuh <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.

• STALE144d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE159d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE159d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH v3 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH v3 4/9] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH v6 07/11] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE93d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE93d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE93d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE93d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>