networking [general] · Maintained

Maintainers

• 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>
• R Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst
• F Documentation/netlink/
• F Documentation/networking/
• F Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/
• F Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
• F Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/
• F include/linux/ethtool.h
• F include/linux/framer/framer-provider.h
• F include/linux/framer/framer.h
• F include/linux/in.h
• F include/linux/in6.h
• F include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h
• F include/linux/inet.h
• F include/linux/inet_diag.h
• F include/linux/net.h
• F include/linux/netdev*
• F include/linux/netlink.h
• F include/linux/netpoll.h
• F include/linux/rtnetlink.h
• F include/linux/sctp.h
• F include/linux/seq_file_net.h
• F include/linux/skbuff*
• F include/net/
• F include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
• F include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/hsr_netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/in.h
• F include/uapi/linux/inet_diag.h
• F include/uapi/linux/nbd-netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/net.h
• F include/uapi/linux/net_namespace.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netconf.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netdev*
• F include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netlink_diag.h
• F include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
• F include/uapi/linux/sctp.h
• F lib/net_utils.c
• F lib/random32.c
• F net/
• F rust/helpers/net/
• F rust/kernel/net/
• F samples/pktgen/
• F tools/net/
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/
• X Documentation/networking/batman-adv.rst
• X Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.rst
• X Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/
• X Documentation/networking/regulatory.rst
• X include/net/bluetooth/
• X include/net/cfg80211.h
• X include/net/ieee80211_radiotap.h
• X include/net/iw_handler.h
• X include/net/mac80211.h
• X include/net/wext.h
• X net/9p/
• X net/batman-adv/
• X net/bluetooth/
• X net/can/
• X net/ceph/
• X net/mac80211/
• X net/rfkill/
• X net/wireless/
• X tools/testing/selftests/net/can/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 00/13] net: mana: reconfigure by replacing the queue set
  2026-09-01 01:45 · 10 replies in 7d · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 0/4] net: mana: concurrent HWC requests and dynamic queue depth
  2026-09-01 20:01 · 4 replies in 7d · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday netvsc.rst: is XDP_REDIRECT still actually unsupported?
  2026-09-02 19:39 · 1 reply in 7d · Christian Melendez <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] vsock: use sk_acceptq_is_full() helper in all transports
  2026-08-31 13:44 · 0 replies in 7d · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
  2 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Luigi Leonardi <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-19
• Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-05
• Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-05

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Documentation: netvsc: Remove stale "not yet supported" XDP_REDIRECT note
  2026-09-02 · Christian Melendez <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 4/4] net: mana: add dynamic HWC queue depth with reinit path
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 3/4] net: mana: support concurrent HWC requests
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 2/4] net: mana: give each HWC message slot its own completion state
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 1/4] net: mana: track when the HWC has been handed to the PF
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 12/13] net: mana: keep the surviving queues when the channel count is reduced
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 13/13] net: mana: keep the existing queues when the channel count is raised
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 11/13] net: mana: keep a user-configured RSS table across a queue rebuild
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 10/13] net: mana: release EQs left idle by a channel-count reduction
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 09/13] net: mana: keep per-queue statistics in the port context
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 06/13] net: mana: swap queue sets in mana_change_mtu
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 07/13] net: mana: swap queue sets in mana_xdp_set
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 03/13] net: mana: swap queue sets in mana_set_channels
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 01/13] net: mana: add queue-set allocation and teardown helpers
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 02/13] net: mana: share the EQ pool across a queue-set swap
  2026-09-01 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] vsock: use sk_acceptq_is_full() helper in all transports
  2026-08-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies IN LINUX-NEXT: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2] mm: drop stale MAX_ORDER references
  2026-08-19 · Qi Xi <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH] mm: drop stale MAX_ORDER references
  2026-08-18 · Qi Xi <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH net v7 7/7] net: mana: keep max_num_cqs immutable once cq_table is allocated
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net v7 5/7] net: mana: fix HWC teardown safety with setup_active flag and destroy ordering
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net v7 6/7] net: mana: fix stale HWC response after command timeout
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net v7 4/7] net: mana: validate hardware-supplied values in the HWC RX path
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net v7 2/7] net: mana: fix HWC RQ/SQ buffer size swap
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net v7 1/7] net: mana: reference-count CQs looked up from the EQ handler
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next v2 12/13] net: mana: keep the surviving queues when the channel count is reduced
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next v2 11/13] net: mana: keep a user-configured RSS table across a queue rebuild
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next v2 13/13] net: mana: keep the existing queues when the channel count is raised
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next v2 08/13] net: mana: keep per-queue statistics in the port context
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next v2 10/13] net: mana: release EQs left idle by a channel-count reduction
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next v2 09/13] net: mana: share the EQ pool across a queue-set swap
  2026-08-13 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>

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.

• STALE178d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next,V3, 2/3] net: mana: Add support for RX CQE Coalescing
  2026-03-06 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE178d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next,V3, 3/3] net: mana: Add ethtool counters for RX CQEs in coalesced type
  2026-03-06 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next,V4, 2/3] net: mana: Add support for RX CQE Coalescing
  2026-03-09 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next,V4, 3/3] net: mana: Add ethtool counters for RX CQEs in coalesced type
  2026-03-09 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE156d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next, v3] net: mana: Force full-page RX buffers for 4K page size on specific systems.
  2026-03-11 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE169d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v5 2/3] net: mana: Add support for RX CQE Coalescing
  2026-03-12 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE169d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v5 3/3] net: mana: Add ethtool counters for RX CQEs in coalesced type
  2026-03-12 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE167d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v6 2/3] net: mana: Add support for RX CQE Coalescing
  2026-03-17 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE167d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v6 3/3] net: mana: Add ethtool counters for RX CQEs in coalesced type
  2026-03-17 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE127d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH] hv_sock: fix ARM64 support
  2026-04-28 · Hamza Mahfooz <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-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.

• STALE182d [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: mana: Create separate EQs for each vPort
  2026-02-28 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• STALE182d [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: mana: Query device capabilities and configure MSI-X sharing for EQs
  2026-02-28 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• STALE182d [PATCH net-next 3/6] net: mana: Introduce GIC context with refcounting for interrupt management
  2026-02-28 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• STALE182d [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: mana: Allocate interrupt context for each EQ when creating vPort
  2026-02-28 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• STALE182d [PATCH net-next 6/6] RDMA/mana_ib: Allocate interrupt contexts on EQs
  2026-02-28 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• STALE180d [PATCH v2 net-next 3/6] net: mana: Introduce GIC context with refcounting for interrupt management
  2026-03-04 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• STALE180d [PATCH v2 net-next 2/6] net: mana: Query device capabilities and configure MSI-X sharing for EQs
  2026-03-04 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• STALE180d [PATCH v2 net-next 5/6] net: mana: Allocate interrupt context for each EQ when creating vPort
  2026-03-04 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• STALE176d [PATCH net-next v3 1/6] net: mana: Create separate EQs for each vPort
  2026-03-06 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• STALE176d [PATCH net-next v3 2/6] net: mana: Query device capabilities and configure MSI-X sharing for EQs
  2026-03-06 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>