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

Recent patches

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

• STALE69d [RFC PATCH v1 5/9] uaccess: Switch to copy_{to/from}_user_partial() when relevant
  2026-04-27 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• STALE82d [PATCH 38/61] net: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH 3/8] net: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE123d [PATCH RFC DRAFT POC 02/11] kthread: remove unused flags argument from kthread worker creation API
  2026-03-03 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE137d [PATCH 07/19] drivers: netconsole: Migrate to register_console_force helper
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE109d [PATCH RFC 2/2] netconsole: Plug to dynamic configfs item
  2025-12-02 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE197d REVIEWED: 32 (32M) [PATCH v2 01/19] drivers: net: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-09-25 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE68d [PATCH v3 13/14] net: bonding: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock
  2025-09-16 · pengdonglin <hidden>
• STALE68d [PATCH v3 12/14] net: amt: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock
  2025-09-16 · pengdonglin <hidden>
• STALE294d [PATCH v2] rcu: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock critical sections
  2025-09-15 · pengdonglin <hidden>
• STALE296d [PATCH] rcu: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock critical sections
  2025-09-12 · pengdonglin <hidden>
• STALE304d [PATCH v8 3/5] treewide: Replace 'get_task_comm()' with 'strscpy_pad()'
  2025-08-21 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE326d REVIEWED: 32 (32M) [PATCH v2 01/19] drivers: net: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-08-13 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE328d [PATCH v7 3/4] treewide: Replace 'get_task_comm()' with 'strscpy_pad()'
  2025-08-11 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• STALE363d LANDED [PATCH 06/11] netronome: don't bother with debugfs_real_fops()
  2025-07-02 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE512d [RFC PATCH 6/6] debugfs: Replace debugfs_node #define with struct wrapping dentry
  2025-02-10 · David Reaver <hidden>
• STALE512d [RFC PATCH 5/6] debugfs: Manual fixes for incomplete Coccinelle conversions
  2025-02-10 · David Reaver <hidden>
• STALE512d [RFC PATCH 4/6] debugfs: Automated conversion from dentry to debugfs_node
  2025-02-10 · David Reaver <hidden>
• STALE540d LANDED [PATCH v2 21/21] saner replacement for debugfs_rename()
  2025-01-12 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE540d LANDED [PATCH v2 19/21] octeontx2: don't mess with ->d_parent or ->d_parent->d_name
  2025-01-12 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE540d LANDED [PATCH v2 10/21] netdevsim: don't embed file_operations into your structs
  2025-01-12 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE540d [PATCH 19/20] octeontx2: don't mess with ->d_parent or ->d_parent->d_name
  2024-12-29 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE540d [PATCH 20/20] saner replacement for debugfs_rename()
  2024-12-29 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE540d [PATCH 10/20] netdevsim: don't embed file_operations into your structs
  2024-12-29 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE693d LANDED [PATCH v2] file: reclaim 24 bytes from f_owner
  2024-08-13 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE693d [PATCH] [DRAFT RFC]: file: reclaim 24 bytes from f_owner
  2024-08-09 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH v2] char: misc: add missing #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
  2024-07-30 · "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
• STALE786d [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE795d [PATCH v2] sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg
  2024-04-18 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• STALE803d [PATCH v2 17/25] net: virtio: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-31 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <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.

• STALE123d [PATCH RFC DRAFT POC 02/11] kthread: remove unused flags argument from kthread worker creation API
  2026-03-03 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE96d [PATCH 3/8] net: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>