mac80211 · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.rst
• F Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/mac80211_hwsim.rst
• F drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim*.[ch]
• F include/net/mac80211.h
• F net/mac80211/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH wireless-next v2 00/16] wifi: Add Seamless Mobility Domain (SMD) AP support
  2026-09-24 02:42 · 8 replies in 7d · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v2 00/16] wifi: SCS and MSCS
  2026-09-22 10:13 · 6 replies in 7d · Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: don't warn on empty legacy rate mask for no-sta frames
  2026-09-24 11:27 · 0 replies in 7d · Jiakai Xu <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless-next v3 0/7] Add support for Control Integrity Protocol (CIP)
  2026-09-21 12:41 · 6 replies in 7d · Benjamin Berg <hidden>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH 0/5] wifi: SCS and MSCS for offloaded flows
  2026-09-22 10:18 · 2 replies in 7d · Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
• WARM1d [PATCH 0/1] wifi: mac80211: reject invalid 320 MHz CSA bandwidth
  2026-09-22 18:02 · 1 reply in 7d · Ren Wei <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH 0/1] mac80211: start next ROC after purging an interface
  2026-09-22 15:39 · 1 reply in 7d · Ren Wei <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: fix potential ack-skb leak on error path
  2026-09-22 12:48 · 0 replies in 7d · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: mesh: don't send peering close in listen
  2026-09-22 12:48 · 0 replies in 7d · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: Restrict probe request rates for minimal content
  2026-09-22 11:39 · 0 replies in 7d · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Vega <hidden>
  11 attestations (11 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-22
• Sidhanta Sahu <hidden>
  6 attestations (6 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-24
• Johannes Berg <hidden>
  6 attestations (6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-22
• Ren Wei <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-21
• Rohan Dutta <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-24
• Pooventhiran G <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-24
• Aditya Sathish <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-24
• Luxing Yin <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-18
• <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-08
• <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-08

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: don't warn on empty legacy rate mask for no-sta frames
  2026-09-24 · Jiakai Xu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH wireless-next v2 16/16] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_GET_SMD_CTX
  2026-09-24 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH wireless-next v2 14/16] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_SET_SMD_CTX
  2026-09-24 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH wireless-next v2 11/16] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Handle UHR Link Reconfiguration frame
  2026-09-24 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH wireless-next v2 08/16] wifi: mac80211: Send BlockAck policy in AMPDU action
  2026-09-24 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH wireless-next v2 07/16] wifi: mac80211: Add driver_op for SMD substate changes
  2026-09-24 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH wireless-next v2 06/16] wifi: nl80211/mac80211: Add SMD BSS Transition sub-state STA flags
  2026-09-24 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH wireless-next v2 04/16] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Parse SMD parameters in STA addition/modification
  2026-09-24 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH wireless-next v2 03/16] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Configure AP with SMD capabilities
  2026-09-24 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/1] wifi: mac80211: reject invalid 320 MHz CSA bandwidth
  2026-09-22 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: start next ROC after purging an interface
  2026-09-22 · Ren Wei <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: fix potential ack-skb leak on error path
  2026-09-22 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: mesh: don't send peering close in listen
  2026-09-22 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: Restrict probe request rates for minimal content
  2026-09-22 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC PATCH 2/5] wifi: mac80211: add a flow priority query
  2026-09-22 · Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC PATCH 3/5] wifi: mac80211: add the flow offload flush op
  2026-09-22 · Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v2 10/16] wifi: mac80211: classify transmitted MSDUs with SCS
  2026-09-22 · Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v2 12/16] wifi: mac80211: apply MSCS on transmit
  2026-09-22 · Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v2 13/16] wifi: mac80211: add the sta_set_scs driver op
  2026-09-22 · Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v2 11/16] wifi: mac80211: learn MSCS flows on receive
  2026-09-22 · Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v2 14/16] wifi: mac80211: add SCS and MSCS debugfs files
  2026-09-22 · Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v2 09/16] wifi: mac80211: add SCS and MSCS rule storage
  2026-09-22 · Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: Fix a race when expiring a mesh path
  2026-09-22 · Ginger Li <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next 2/2] wifi: mac80211: implement NAN non-evacuable channels
  2026-09-21 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless-next v3 6/7] wifi: mac80211: add Control Integrity Protocol handling
  2026-09-21 · Benjamin Berg <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless-next v3 2/7] wifi: mac80211: add key link_id to debugfs
  2026-09-21 · Benjamin Berg <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless-next v3 4/7] wifi: mac80211: add cigtk parameter to ieee80211_gtk_rekey_add
  2026-09-21 · Benjamin Berg <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless-next v3 5/7] wifi: mac80211: add helpers to parse/generate CIP Capabilities
  2026-09-21 · Benjamin Berg <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless-next v3 3/7] wifi: cfg80211: add Control Integrity Protocol (CIP) APIs
  2026-09-21 · Benjamin Berg <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH wireless-next v3 1/7] wifi: mac80211: add key flags to debugfs
  2026-09-21 · Benjamin Berg <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.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: use for_each_chanctx_user_* in one more place
  2026-03-20 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: ignore reserved bits in reconfiguration status
  2026-03-20 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: make ieee80211_find_chanctx link-unaware
  2026-03-20 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: extract channel logic from link logic
  2026-03-20 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: properly handle error in ieee80211_add_virtual_monitor
  2026-03-20 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE184d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: fix AEAD functions not handling errors
  2026-03-23 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE178d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.12] wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper
  2026-03-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Tested-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: ignore reserved bits in reconfiguration status
  2026-03-25 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: extract channel logic from link logic
  2026-03-25 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: ignore reserved bits in reconfiguration status
  2026-03-25 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> · 1 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.

• STALE209d [PATCH wireless-next v2 2/5] wifi: mac80211: Advertise EPPKE support based on driver capabilities
  2026-02-26 · Kavita Kavita <hidden>
• STALE209d [PATCH wireless-next v2 4/5] wifi: mac80211: Add support for IEEE 802.1X authentication protocol in non-AP STA mode
  2026-02-26 · Kavita Kavita <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH wireless-next v2 5/5] wifi: mac80211: Advertise IEEE 802.1X authentication support
  2026-02-26 · Kavita Kavita <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 wireless-next] wifi: cfg80211: make cluster id an array
  2026-03-02 · Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: remove stale TODO item
  2026-03-03 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: remove AID bit stripping for print
  2026-03-03 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• STALE204d [PATCH wireless-next 2/3] wifi: mac80211: always use full chanctx compatible check
  2026-03-03 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• STALE204d [RFC wireless-next 3/8] wifi: mac80211: use NPCA in chandef for validation
  2026-03-03 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• STALE204d [RFC wireless-next 4/8] wifi: mac80211: remove NPCA during chandef downgrade
  2026-03-03 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• STALE204d [RFC wireless-next 5/8] wifi: mac80211: add NPCA to chandef tracing
  2026-03-03 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>