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Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING14d [PATCH] Documentation: rs485: Pull uart_get_rs485_mode() from serial_core.c
  2026-09-05 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• COLD38d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v3 3/7] serial: 8250: Make uart_match_port() a 8250 specific function
  2026-08-14 · Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <hidden>
• COLD40d [PATCH v1 1/2] pinctrl: core: Allow drivers to keep "init" pinctrl state after probe
  2026-08-10 · Michał Kardaś <hidden>
• COLD48d [PATCH v2] tty: moxa: remove driver.
  2026-08-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD41d [PATCH v2 4/8] serial: 8250: Make uart_match_port() a 8250 specific function
  2026-08-04 · Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <hidden>
• COLD49d [PATCH v1 3/6] serial: 8250: Make uart_match_port() a 8250 specific function
  2026-07-31 · Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
• STALE123d [PATCH v2] dt-bindings: serial: rs485: remove deprecated .txt binding stub
  2026-05-21 · Akash Sukhavasi <hidden>
• STALE125d [PATCH] video: console: mdacon: remove this obsolete driver
  2026-05-20 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE138d REVIEWED: 32 (31M) [PATCH v8 2/6] ARM: zte: Add zx297520v3 platform support
  2026-05-06 · Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger@gmail.com>
• COLD50d [PATCH 3/3] docs: driver-api/tty/index.rst: copy-editing; improve organization
  2026-05-05 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• COLD50d [PATCH 1/3] tty: move remaining serial drivers into the serial/ directory
  2026-05-05 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE140d [PATCH v3] tty: synclink_gt: remove broken driver
  2026-05-04 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE141d [PATCH v2] tty: synclink_gt: remove broken driver
  2026-05-03 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE134d REVIEWED: 32 (31M) [PATCH v7 2/6] ARM: zte: Add zx297520v3 platform support
  2026-04-29 · Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger@gmail.com>
• STALE148d REVIEWED: 31 (31M) [PATCH v6 2/6] ARM: zte: Add zx297520v3 platform support
  2026-04-26 · Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger@gmail.com>
• STALE124d [PATCH v5 1/8] ARM: zte: Add zx297520v3 platform support
  2026-04-21 · Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger@gmail.com>
• STALE155d [PATCH v4 1/8] ARM: zte: Add zx297520v3 platform support
  2026-04-16 · Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger@gmail.com>
• STALE194d [PATCH] vt: Add boot param for setting default vt console
  2026-03-01 · Adam Saponara <hidden>
• STALE235d [PATCH] tty: synclink_gt: remove broken driver
  2026-01-29 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE243d [PATCH v1 2/2] serial: 8250_pci: Remove custom deprecated baud setting routine
  2026-01-22 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE322d [PATCH v3] Documentation: sysrq: Rewrite /proc/sysrq-trigger usage
  2025-10-23 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE334d [PATCH v2] Documentation: sysrq: Rewrite /proc/sysrq-trigger usage
  2025-10-16 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE340d [PATCH] Documentation: sysrq: Remove contradicting sentence on extra /proc/sysrq-trigger characters
  2025-10-08 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE446d [PATCH] global: fix misapplications of "awhile"
  2025-07-02 · Ahelenia Ziemiańska <hidden>
• STALE454d LANDED [PATCH v2 5/5] tty: fix tty_port_tty_*hangup() kernel-doc
  2025-06-24 · "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
• STALE455d [PATCH 5/5] tty: fix tty_port_tty_*hangup() kernel-doc
  2025-06-23 · "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
• STALE470d LANDED [PATCH] serial: Remove unused uart_get_console
  2025-06-08 · <hidden>
• STALE504d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 144/212] serial: mctrl_gpio: split disable_ms into sync and no_sync APIs
  2025-05-05 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE490d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 186/294] serial: mctrl_gpio: split disable_ms into sync and no_sync APIs
  2025-05-05 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE504d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.12 306/486] serial: mctrl_gpio: split disable_ms into sync and no_sync APIs
  2025-05-05 · 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.

• COLD41d [PATCH v2 4/8] serial: 8250: Make uart_match_port() a 8250 specific function
  2026-08-04 · Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <hidden>