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• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

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Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD15d [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Add CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING to clean up kernel.h
  2026-06-21 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• COLD34d [RFC PATCH v2 14/14] Documentation: add kcov-dataflow.rst
  2026-06-11 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD35d [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] kcov: add recursion guard and documentation for kcov-dataflow
  2026-06-03 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Makefile: Globally enable fall-through warning
  2026-05-30 · Manish-Shah <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 11/11] kernel/api: add syscall enter/exit tracepoints
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD48d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD45d [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture
  2026-05-18 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• COLD37d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 01/16] kbuild: Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1
  2026-05-17 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• COLD49d [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] Documentation: add kconfirm
  2026-05-16 · Julian Braha <hidden>
• STALE64d [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation: dev-tools: add kconfirm
  2026-05-09 · Julian Braha <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH v6 07/11] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Makefile: Globally enable fall-through warning
  2026-05-03 · Damika-Anupama <hidden>
• STALE64d [PATCH 01/14] kbuild: Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1
  2026-04-29 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• STALE78d [RFC PATCH 2/2] Documentation: dev-tools: add kconfirm
  2026-04-27 · Julian Braha <hidden>
• STALE73d [PATCH v3 4/9] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE73d [PATCH v3 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE73d [PATCH v3 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE73d [PATCH v3 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE99d [PATCH v5 6/8] uapi: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in uapi headers
  2026-04-09 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 17/33] rust: bump `bindgen` minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 36 (36M) [PATCH v2 05/33] rust: bump Rust minimum supported version to 1.85.0 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH 14/33] rust: bump `bindgen` minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-01 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE101d [PATCH 01/33] rust: bump Rust minimum supported version to 1.85.0 (Debian Trixie)
  2026-04-01 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE97d [PATCH 3/5] compiler_attributes: Add overflow_behavior macros __ob_trap and __ob_wrap
  2026-03-31 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE111d [PATCH] kbuild: fix decl_tag_kfuncs gating to require pahole v1.27
  2026-03-27 · zhidao su <hidden>
• STALE115d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE115d [PATCH v2 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix typos and grammatical errors
  2026-01-12 · Nauman Sabir <hidden>
• STALE177d [PATCH 6/9] docs: kdoc: move kernel-doc to tools/docs
  2026-01-19 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Makefile: Globally enable fall-through warning
  2026-02-14 · Rishabh <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 4/4] Documentation: gcov: document MC/DC condition coverage support
  2026-03-14 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE115d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE115d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE99d [PATCH v5 6/8] uapi: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in uapi headers
  2026-04-09 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• STALE73d [PATCH v3 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE73d [PATCH v3 4/9] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>