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Maintainers

• M Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
• R Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

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• F Documentation/
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• F tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/doc_generator.py
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• X Documentation/devicetree/
• X Documentation/driver-api/media/
• X Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/
• X Documentation/i2c/
• X Documentation/netlink/
• X Documentation/power/
• X Documentation/spi/
• X Documentation/userspace-api/media/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH bpf-next v4 00/12] bpf: make the vmlinux BTF an on-demand loadable module (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=m) to save ~5.4 MB memory
  2026-10-01 22:55 · 1 reply in 7d · Jay Wang <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v4 0/2] Move tool for generating initramfs cpio to scripts/
  2026-09-28 17:27 · 1 reply in 7d · Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-23
• Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-23
• Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-28
• Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-28
• Manuel Ebner <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-23
• Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-17

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH bpf-next v4 12/12] kbuild, bpf: allow building the vmlinux BTF as a module
  2026-10-01 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v4 2/2] kbuild: Move gen_init_cpio and gen_initramfs.sh to scripts/
  2026-09-28 · Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH bpf-next v3 9/9] kbuild, bpf: allow building the vmlinux BTF as a module
  2026-09-25 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH bpf-next v2 9/9] kbuild, bpf: allow building the vmlinux BTF as a module
  2026-09-25 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v3 2/2] kbuild: Move gen_init_cpio and gen_initramfs.sh to scripts/
  2026-09-25 · Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH v11 29/38] dyndbg: control-parser: treat comma as a token separator
  2026-09-23 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v11 34/38] docs/dyndbg: add classmap info to howto
  2026-09-23 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH v11 31/38] dyndbg: split multi-query strings with @
  2026-09-23 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 15 (14M) [PATCH v4 22/22] kbuild: compress the kernel with pigz if available
  2026-09-23 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH bpf-next 6/6] kbuild, bpf: allow building the vmlinux BTF as a module
  2026-09-23 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• COOLING13d [RFC PATCH 30/46] KVM: caretaker: Integrate Caretaker vCPU detach, attach, and cancel with KVM
  2026-09-20 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COOLING13d [RFC PATCH 28/46] KVM: caretaker: Add Caretaker control block and architecture ops headers
  2026-09-20 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COOLING13d [RFC PATCH 27/46] oncore: Implement on-core session lifecycle and scheduling loop
  2026-09-20 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COOLING13d [RFC PATCH 23/46] Documentation: liveupdate: Add physical CPU preservation documentation
  2026-09-20 · Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 1/3] kconfig: Add "def_string", "def_int" and "def_hex"
  2026-09-19 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v3 20/20] kbuild: compress the kernel with pigz if available
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH v9 3/4] kallsyms: delta-compress lineinfo tables for ~2.7x size reduction
  2026-09-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH v9 2/4] kallsyms: extend lineinfo to loadable modules
  2026-09-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH v9 1/4] kallsyms: embed source file:line info in kernel stack traces
  2026-09-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] docs: Makefile: Add a testdocs target for the documentation unit tests
  2026-09-16 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v10 34/38] docs/dyndbg: add classmap info to howto
  2026-09-16 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v10 29/38] dyndbg: control-parser: treat comma as a token separator
  2026-09-16 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v10 31/38] dyndbg: split multi-query strings with @
  2026-09-16 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] make: cache per-directory tags
  2026-09-15 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH 1/2] make: parallelize tags generation
  2026-09-15 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• COOLING12d Re: [PATCH v2 21/21] kbuild: use pigz for gzip compression if available
  2026-09-14 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v2 21/21] kbuild: use pigz for gzip compression if available
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v2 18/21] kbuild: rust: optionally parallelise rustc front end
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD23d [PATCH v9 30/39] dyndbg: control-parser: treat comma as a token separator
  2026-09-09 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• COLD23d [PATCH v9 32/39] dyndbg: split multi-query strings with @
  2026-09-09 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.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.

• COLD17d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18] modpost: Handle malformed WMI GUID strings
  2026-08-31 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD29d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v8 38/43] docs/dyndbg: add classmap info to howto
  2026-09-05 · Jim Cromie via B4 Relay <devnull+jim.cromie.gmail.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD23d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v9 35/39] docs/dyndbg: add classmap info to howto
  2026-09-09 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v10 34/38] docs/dyndbg: add classmap info to howto
  2026-09-16 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 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.

• STALE187d [PATCH v3 1/4] kallsyms: embed source file:line info in kernel stack traces
  2026-03-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE179d [PATCH 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE179d [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>
• STALE194d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE194d [PATCH v2 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE194d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE195d [PATCH v4 1/4] kallsyms: embed source file:line info in kernel stack traces
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE195d [PATCH v4 2/4] kallsyms: extend lineinfo to loadable modules
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5 7/7] documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections
  2026-03-26 · Siddharth Nayyar <hidden>