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

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• F Documentation/dev-tools/
• F Documentation/maintainer/
• F Documentation/process/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: deprecated.rst: type-aware kmalloc-family: mark optional argument as such
  2026-04-20 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE88d [PATCH] [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-20 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE90d [PATCH] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-18 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE326d [PATCH] Documentation: process: Fix grammar errors in management-style.rst
  2025-08-24 · I Viswanath <hidden>
• STALE349d [PATCH] checkpatch: validate commit tag ordering
  2025-07-24 · Hendrik Hamerlinck <hidden>
• STALE402d [PATCH] lkmm: docs: Put LKMM documentation into dev-tools book
  2025-05-06 · Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
• STALE487d LANDED [PATCH] Documentation: kcsan: fix "Plain Accesses and Data Races" URL in kcsan.rst
  2025-03-06 · Ignacio Encinas <hidden>
• STALE612d LANDED [PATCH] docs: fix typos and whitespace in Documentation/process/backporting.rst
  2024-11-07 · Abhinav Saxena <hidden>
• STALE680d LANDED [PATCH V2] Documentation: Fix spelling mistakes
  2024-08-17 · Amit Vadhavana <hidden>
• STALE700d [PATCH] Documentation: Fix spelling mistakes
  2024-08-10 · Amit Vadhavana <hidden>
• STALE1787d [PATCH v5] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SYMBOLIC_PERMS message
  2021-08-24 · Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
• STALE1787d [PATCH v3] Documentation: checkpatch: Add TRAILING_SEMICOLON message
  2021-08-20 · Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
• STALE1787d [PATCH v4] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SYMBOLIC_PERMS message
  2021-08-06 · Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
• STALE1803d [PATCH v2] Documentation: checkpatch: add UNNECESSARY_CASTS message.
  2021-08-06 · Vinesh Raut <hidden>
• STALE1807d [PATCH] Documentation: Checkpatch.rst: Doc added UNNECESSARY_CAST
  2021-08-05 · Vinesh Raut <hidden>
• STALE1787d [PATCH v2] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SPLIT_STRING message
  2021-08-04 · Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
• STALE1787d [PATCH v3] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SYMBOLIC_PERMS message
  2021-08-04 · Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
• STALE1787d [PATCH v2] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SYMBOLIC_PERMS message
  2021-08-03 · Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
• STALE1787d [PATCH v2] Documentation: checkpatch: Add TRAILING_SEMICOLON message
  2021-08-03 · Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
• STALE1787d [PATCH] Documentation: checkpatch: Add TRAILING_SEMICOLON message
  2021-08-03 · Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
• STALE1787d [PATCH] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SYMBOLIC_PERMS message
  2021-08-03 · Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
• STALE1787d [PATCH] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SPLIT_STRING message
  2021-08-03 · Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
• STALE1940d LANDED: 1 (1M) [PATCH -next v4] docs: document all error message types in checkpatch
  2021-03-22 · Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
• STALE1943d [PATCH -next v3] docs: document all error message types in checkpatch
  2021-03-21 · Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
• STALE1945d [PATCH v2] docs: document all error message types in checkpatch
  2021-03-18 · Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: document all error message types in checkpatch
  2021-03-18 · Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
• STALE1963d LANDED [PATCH v8 1/3] docs: add documentation for checkpatch
  2021-02-26 · Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
• STALE1967d [PATCH v7 2/2] docs: add documentation for checkpatch
  2021-02-22 · Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
• STALE1971d [PATCH v6 2/2] docs: add documentation for checkpatch
  2021-02-21 · Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
• STALE1973d [PATCH v5 2/2] docs: add documentation for checkpatch
  2021-02-20 · Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.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.

• STALE88d [PATCH] [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
  2026-04-20 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: deprecated.rst: type-aware kmalloc-family: mark optional argument as such
  2026-04-20 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>