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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH net-next 0/7] net: mana: harden the HWC and add dynamic queue depth
  2026-07-15 03:30 · 7 replies in 7d · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH net-next v12 0/4] net: mana: add ethtool private flag for full-page RX buffers
  2026-07-11 04:14 · 4 replies in 7d · Dipayaan Roy <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] net: mana: cap HWC init max message size to HW_CHANNEL_MAX_REQUEST_SIZE
  2026-07-11 15:06 · 0 replies in 7d · Michael Bommarito <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
  12 attestations (12 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-02
• Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• Erni Sri Satya Vennela <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-06-24
• Aditya Garg <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• Dipayaan Roy <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-24
• Yury Norov <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-24

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH net-next 7/7] net: mana: add dynamic HWC queue depth with reinit path
  2026-07-15 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next 6/7] net: mana: support concurrent HWC requests with proper synchronization
  2026-07-15 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: mana: fix HWC teardown safety with setup_active flag and destroy ordering
  2026-07-15 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next 3/7] net: mana: free HWC comp_buf after destroying the EQ
  2026-07-15 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next 4/7] net: mana: validate hardware-supplied values in the HWC RX path
  2026-07-15 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: mana: fix HWC RQ/SQ buffer size swap
  2026-07-15 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: mana: RCU-protect gc->cq_table lookups against concurrent CQ destroy
  2026-07-15 · Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] net: mana: cap HWC init max message size to HW_CHANNEL_MAX_REQUEST_SIZE
  2026-07-11 · Michael Bommarito <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net-next v12 4/4] net: mana: recover port on attach failure in ethtool operations
  2026-07-11 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net-next v12 3/4] net: mana: force full-page RX buffers via ethtool private flag
  2026-07-11 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH net-next v12 2/4] net: mana: do not bail out of mana_detach on dealloc failure
  2026-07-11 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v12 1/4] net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to use switch
  2026-07-11 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4] net: mana: Add handler for sriov configure
  2026-07-10 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net-next] net: mana: Add debug knob to skip TX timeout recovery reset
  2026-07-10 · Aditya Garg <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH net-next v3] net: mana: Add handler for sriov configure
  2026-07-08 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net-next v5] net: mana: Add Interrupt Moderation support
  2026-07-02 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v3 2/2] net: mana: Sync page pool RX frags for CPU
  2026-07-02 · Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v3 1/2] net: mana: Validate the packet length reported by the NIC
  2026-07-02 · Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net-next v2] net: mana: Add handler for sriov configure
  2026-07-01 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v11 1/2] net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to use switch
  2026-07-01 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net-next v11 2/2] net: mana: force full-page RX buffers via ethtool private flag
  2026-07-01 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net-next v4] net: mana: Add Interrupt Moderation support
  2026-06-29 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v2 2/2] net: mana: Validate the packet length reported by the NIC
  2026-06-24 · Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v2 1/2] net: mana: Sync page pool RX frags for CPU
  2026-06-24 · Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
• COLD21d [PATCH net] net: ethtool: keep rtnl_lock for ops using ethtool_op_get_link()
  2026-06-24 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v5 net] net: mana: Optimize irq affinity for low vcpu configs
  2026-06-24 · Shradha Gupta <hidden>
• COLD24d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v4 net] net: mana: Optimize irq affinity for low vcpu configs
  2026-06-19 · Shradha Gupta <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH net] net: mana: Fall back to standard MTU when PF reports adapter_mtu of 0
  2026-06-19 · Erni Sri Satya Vennela <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH net] net: mana: Sync page pool RX frags for CPU
  2026-06-18 · Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
• COLD31d [RFC PATCH v1] PCI: Remove pcie_flr() and convert all callers to use pcie_reset_flr()
  2026-06-15 · Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.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.

• STALE186d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next, v7] net: mana: Implement ndo_tx_timeout and serialize queue resets per port.
  2026-01-06 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE184d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next] net: hv_netvsc: reject RSS hash key programming without RX indirection table
  2026-01-12 · Aditya Garg <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE184d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next, v8] net: mana: Implement ndo_tx_timeout and serialize queue resets per port.
  2026-01-12 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE184d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next] net: mana: Add MAC address to vPort logs and clarify error messages
  2026-01-13 · Erni Sri Satya Vennela <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net-next v2 3/9] net: nfp: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-22 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net-next v2 4/9] net: mana: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-22 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH net-next v2 6/9] net: ionic: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-22 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE141d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net] net: mana: Fix double destroy_workqueue on service rescan PCI path
  2026-02-24 · Dipayaan Roy <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE131d 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
• STALE131d 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

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.

• STALE195d [PATCH net-next, 2/2] net: mana: Add ethtool counters for RX CQEs in coalesced type
  2026-01-02 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden>
• STALE176d [PATCH net-next 1/9] net: benet: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-21 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE176d [PATCH net-next 5/9] net: fbnic: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-21 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE176d [PATCH net-next 7/9] net: sfc: efx: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-21 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE176d [PATCH net-next 8/9] net: sfc: siena: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-21 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE176d [PATCH net-next 9/9] net: sfc: falcon: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-21 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH net-next v2 1/9] net: benet: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-22 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH net-next v2 2/9] net: atlantic: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-22 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH net-next v2 5/9] net: fbnic: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-22 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH net-next v2 7/9] net: sfc: efx: convert to use .get_rx_ring_count
  2026-01-22 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>