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Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-11

Recent patches

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

• WARM3d IN LINUX-NEXT: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 12/12] mm: change the contract for free_pgtables(), update docs
  2026-09-11 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v2 12/12] mm: change the contract for free_pgtables(), update docs
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING11d [PATCH 12/12] mm: change the contract for free_pgtables(), update docs
  2026-09-01 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE186d [PATCH v2 2/4] docs: driver-model: document driver_override
  2026-03-03 · Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
• STALE193d [PATCH v3 27/29] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE193d [PATCH v3 24/29] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2026-01-11 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE211d [PATCH v2 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE211d [PATCH v2 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2026-01-02 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE260d [PATCH 26/28] mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE260d [PATCH 23/28] arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
  2025-12-28 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 55/62] init: rename CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD to CONFIG_INITRAMFS
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 45/62] doc: kernel-parameters: replace [RAM] with [INITRAMFS]
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 44/62] doc: kernel-parameters: remove [RAM] from reserve_mem=
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 30/62] doc: remove documentation for block device 4 0
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 22/62] doc: remove obsolete mentions of pivot_root
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 21/62] init: remove all mentions of root=/dev/ram*
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 20/62] doc: remove Documentation/power/swsusp-dmcrypt.rst
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 18/62] doc: modernize Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/early_userspace_support.rst
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 17/62] doc: modernize Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 15/62] doc: modernize Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 12/62] init: remove /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 11/62] init, efi: remove "noinitrd" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 10/62] initrd: remove initrd (initial RAM disk) support
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 09/62] arm: init: document rd_start (in param_struct) as obsolete
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 08/62] arm: init: remove FLAG_RDLOAD and FLAG_RDPROMPT
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 05/62] init: remove "ramdisk_start" command line parameter, which controls starting block number of initrd
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 04/62] init: x86, arm, sh, sparc: remove variable rd_image_start, which controls starting block number of initrd
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 02/62] init: remove deprecated "prompt_ramdisk" command line parameter, which does nothing
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE344d [PATCH RESEND 01/62] init: remove deprecated "load_ramdisk" command line parameter, which does nothing
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>