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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH] Documentation: warn against using int, hex, string options as expressions in Kconfig
  2026-07-30 14:01 · 0 replies in 7d · Julian Braha <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 0/5] add kconfirm
  2026-07-27 00:16 · 1 reply in 7d · Julian Braha <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH] Documentation: warn against using int, hex, string options as expressions in Kconfig
  2026-07-30 · Julian Braha <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 4/5] Documentation: add kconfirm
  2026-07-27 · Julian Braha <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH] Documentation: warn users not to use select on choice options in Kconfig
  2026-07-15 · Julian Braha <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v7 2/4] kallsyms: extend lineinfo to loadable modules
  2026-07-09 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH v7 1/4] kallsyms: embed source file:line info in kernel stack traces
  2026-07-09 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD25d [PATCH v6 2/4] kallsyms: extend lineinfo to loadable modules
  2026-07-06 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD25d [PATCH v6 1/4] kallsyms: embed source file:line info in kernel stack traces
  2026-07-06 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD30d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v7 6/9] Documentation: bootconfig: document build-time cmdline rendering
  2026-06-26 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD37d [PATCH v6 6/8] Documentation: bootconfig: document build-time cmdline rendering
  2026-06-23 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD30d [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Add CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING to clean up kernel.h
  2026-06-21 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• COLD44d [PATCH v5 6/7] Documentation: bootconfig: document build-time cmdline rendering
  2026-06-17 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD44d [PATCH] docs: kbuild: remove ISDN references in Makefile examples
  2026-06-13 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• COLD49d [RFC PATCH v2 14/14] Documentation: add kcov-dataflow.rst
  2026-06-11 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD43d [PATCH v3] kconfig: add optional warnings for changed input values
  2026-06-11 · Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
• COLD39d [PATCH v4 6/7] Documentation: bootconfig: document build-time cmdline rendering
  2026-06-09 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD49d [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] kcov: add recursion guard and documentation for kcov-dataflow
  2026-06-03 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH bpf-next v1 14/14] docs, resolve_btfids: Document kfunc BTF annotation emission
  2026-06-01 · Ihor Solodrai <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>
• STALE63d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE63d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE63d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE63d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE65d [PATCH v2] kconfig: add optional warnings for changed input values
  2026-05-21 · Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
• STALE70d [PATCH v7 01/15] scripts/sbom: add documentation
  2026-05-18 · Luis <luis.augenstein@tngtech.com>
• COLD60d [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture
  2026-05-18 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• COLD52d 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>
• STALE64d [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] Documentation: add kconfirm
  2026-05-16 · Julian Braha <hidden>
• STALE79d [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation: dev-tools: add kconfirm
  2026-05-09 · Julian Braha <hidden>
• STALE85d [PATCH v6 01/15] scripts/sbom: add documentation
  2026-05-07 · Luis <luis.augenstein@tngtech.com>

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>
• STALE192d [PATCH 8/9] docs: kdoc: improve description of MsgFormatter
  2026-01-19 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE192d [PATCH 9/9] docs: conf.py: get rid of the now unused kerneldoc_bin env var
  2026-01-19 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE192d [PATCH 7/9] docs: kdoc: move the return values to the helper message
  2026-01-19 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE192d [PATCH 6/9] docs: kdoc: move kernel-doc to tools/docs
  2026-01-19 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE191d Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/kbuild: Document gendwarfksyms build dependencies
  2026-01-21 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Makefile: Globally enable fall-through warning
  2026-02-14 · Rishabh <hidden>
• STALE142d [PATCH 2/3] kallsyms: extend lineinfo to loadable modules
  2026-03-03 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 8/8] documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections
  2026-03-05 · Siddharth Nayyar <hidden>
• STALE127d [PATCH v4 8/8] documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections
  2026-03-05 · Siddharth Nayyar <hidden>