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

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• F tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/doc_generator.py
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• X Documentation/driver-api/media/
• X Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/
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• 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 v4 0/3] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-09-14 14:31 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 00/39] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
  2026-09-08 20:06 · 1 reply in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
  6 attestations (3 Reviewed-by, 3 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-14
• Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-14
• Bradley Morgan <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-14
• Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-31

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH v4 3/3] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-09-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 08/39] docs: filesystems: update mmap_prepare docs for discontig kernel pgs
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] docs: usbmon: Fix a typo in the example
  2026-09-05 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v3] Kconfig: fix typos in core makefiles/code and purge remaining ghosts (v3)
  2026-09-05 · Breno Rodrigues Alves <hidden>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH v3 2/2] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-09-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v5 3/4] PM: hibernate: allow devices to skip post-snapshot THAW
  2026-09-03 · Haowen Tu <hidden>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 2/2] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-08-31 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-31 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH 2/2] usb: gadget: f_uac2: allow explicit channel counts
  2026-08-29 · Kyle Farrell <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH 2/2] driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers
  2026-08-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-17 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-10 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] usb: gadget: f_uac2: allow explicit channel counts
  2026-07-29 · Kyle Farrell <hidden>
• COLD47d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 1/2] usb: core: Add quirk for 255-bytes initial config read
  2026-07-28 · Nikhil Solanke <hidden>
• COLD47d [PATCH v4 1/2] usb: core: Add quirk for 255-bytes initial config read
  2026-07-27 · Nikhil Solanke <hidden>
• COLD47d [PATCH v2 1/2] usbcore: Add quirk for 255-bytes initial config read
  2026-07-26 · Ishaan Dandekar <hidden>
• COLD50d [PATCH 1/3] usbcore: Add quirk for 255-bytes initial config read
  2026-07-26 · Ishaan Dandekar <hidden>
• COLD40d [PATCH] usb: core: add USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_DESC_READ_255 for Razer BlackShark V3 Pro
  2026-07-20 · Charles Daoust <hidden>
• COLD48d [PATCH 1/2] usbcore: Add quirk for 255-bytes initial config read
  2026-07-17 · Nikhil Solanke <hidden>
• COLD59d [PATCH] Documentation: usb: remove dead link to external USB programming guide
  2026-07-13 · Utsav Shankar <hidden>
• COLD60d [PATCH v2] usb: gadget: f_uac1_legacy: remove broken string configfs attributes
  2026-07-13 · Xu Yang <hidden>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2] docs: admin-guide: thunderbolt: fix sentence structure
  2026-07-08 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE69d [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: thunderbolt: fix sentence structure
  2026-07-06 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE70d [PATCH v2] usbcore: Add quirk for 255-bytes initial config read
  2026-06-23 · Nikhil Solanke <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Add CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING to clean up kernel.h
  2026-06-21 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 4/4] usb: gadget: f_fs: Introduce rw_proxy file descriptors
  2026-06-19 · Neill Kapron <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH v2 3/4] usb: gadget: f_fs: Add zero-length packet ioctl
  2026-06-19 · Neill Kapron <hidden>
• STALE90d [PATCH 3/3] usb: gadget: f_fs: Introduce rw_proxy file descriptors
  2026-06-14 · Neill Kapron <hidden>
• STALE90d [PATCH 2/3] usb: gadget: f_fs: Add zero-length packet ioctl
  2026-06-14 · Neill Kapron <hidden>
• STALE105d [PATCH v4] docs/zh_CN: usb: refine translated wording and formatting
  2026-06-01 · Kefan Bai <hidden>

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.

• STALE116d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH v7 2/2] hwmon: add AMD Promontory 21 xHCI temperature sensor support
  2026-05-19 · Jihong Min <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE105d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 1/8] docs/zh_CN: Add index.rst translation
  2026-05-21 · Kefan Bai <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE105d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/8] docs/zh_CN: Add dwc3.rst translation
  2026-05-21 · Kefan Bai <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE105d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 8/8] docs/zh_CN: Add CREDITS translation
  2026-05-21 · Kefan Bai <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE105d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 6/8] docs/zh_CN: Add ehci.rst translation
  2026-05-21 · Kefan Bai <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE105d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 4/8] docs/zh_CN: Add chipidea.rst translation
  2026-05-21 · Kefan Bai <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE105d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 3/8] docs/zh_CN: Add authorization.rst translation
  2026-05-21 · Kefan Bai <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-10 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-17 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5] scsi: core: Drop Scsi_Host.default_lock
  2026-08-31 · John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com> · 2 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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] usb: core: new quirk to handle devices with zero configurations
  2026-02-27 · Jie Deng <hidden>
• STALE181d [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.1] usb: core: new quirk to handle devices with zero configurations
  2026-03-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE118d [PATCH v2 10/10] docs: admin-guide: thunderbolt: Add instructions how to use USB4STREAM
  2026-05-11 · Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
• STALE90d [PATCH 2/3] usb: gadget: f_fs: Add zero-length packet ioctl
  2026-06-14 · Neill Kapron <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH v2 3/4] usb: gadget: f_fs: Add zero-length packet ioctl
  2026-06-19 · Neill Kapron <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 4/4] usb: gadget: f_fs: Introduce rw_proxy file descriptors
  2026-06-19 · Neill Kapron <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] usb: gadget: f_uac2: allow explicit channel counts
  2026-07-29 · Kyle Farrell <hidden>