networking drivers · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
• M Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• M Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• M Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/
• F Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
• F drivers/connector/
• F drivers/net/
• F drivers/ptp/
• F drivers/s390/net/
• F include/dt-bindings/net/
• F include/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/linux/etherdevice.h
• F include/linux/ethtool_netlink.h
• F include/linux/fcdevice.h
• F include/linux/fddidevice.h
• F include/linux/if_*
• F include/linux/inetdevice.h
• F include/linux/netdev*
• F include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink*
• F include/uapi/linux/if_*
• F include/uapi/linux/net_shaper.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netdev*
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/bluetooth/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/
• X drivers/net/can/
• X drivers/net/wireless/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 00/14] net: enetc: cleanups and improvements
  2026-07-07 08:48 · 14 replies in 7d · <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH net-next v3 00/15] ibmveth: Add multi-queue RX support
  2026-07-06 19:38 · 15 replies in 7d · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 00/20] driver core: count references of the platform device's fwnode, not OF node
  2026-07-06 12:45 · 2 replies in 7d · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v2 1/5] ibmvnic: Move long delayed work on system_dfl_long_wq
  2026-07-06 13:40 · 0 replies in 7d · Marco Crivellari <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Dave Marquardt <hidden>
  48 attestations (48 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
  6 attestations (6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-07
• Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-06

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 14/14] net: enetc: use kzalloc_flex() for enetc_psfp_gate allocation
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 13/14] net: enetc: use alloc_etherdev_mqs() to create netdev for VF driver
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 12/14] net: enetc: remove redundant num_vsi field from enetc_port_caps
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 11/14] net: enetc: move enetc_set_si_vlan_promisc() to enetc_pf_common.c
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 10/14] net: enetc: refactor SI VLAN promiscuous mode configuration
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 09/14] net: enetc: open-code enetc4_set_default_si_vlan_promisc()
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4 net-next 08/14] net: enetc: remove invalid code from enetc4_pl_mac_link_up()
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4 net-next 07/14] net: enetc: differentiate phylink capabilities for pseudo-MAC and standalone MAC
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4 net-next 06/14] net: enetc: simplify enetc4_set_port_speed()
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 05/14] net: enetc: use PCI device name for debugfs directory
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 04/14] net: enetc: improve MAFT entry management with bitmap tracking
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 03/14] net: enetc: convert ndo_set_rx_mode() to ndo_set_rx_mode_async()
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 02/14] net: enetc: extract common helpers for MAC hash filter configuration
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v4 net-next 01/14] net: enetc: extract common helpers for MAC promiscuous mode setting
  2026-07-07 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 15/15] ibmveth: Fix MQ RX poll and shutdown hangs after queue resize
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 14/15] ibmveth: Wire ethtool set_channels to MQ RX queue resize
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 13/15] ibmveth: Implement incremental MQ RX queue resize
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 12/15] ibmveth: Expose per-queue buffer pool details via sysfs
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 11/15] ibmveth: Add per-queue RX and TX statistics collection and reporting
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 10/15] ibmveth: Enable multi-queue RX receive path
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 09/15] ibmveth: Add queue-aware RX buffer submit helper for MQ
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 08/15] ibmveth: Refactor open/close into MQ-ready resource pipeline
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 07/15] ibmveth: Add RX queue register/deregister helpers for MQ
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 06/15] ibmveth: Refactor TX resource allocation in open/close paths
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 05/15] ibmveth: Refactor RX interrupt control for MQ RX queues
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 04/15] ibmveth: Refactor buffer pool management for per-queue MQ RX
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 03/15] ibmveth: Refactor RX resource allocation for MQ RX bring-up
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 02/15] ibmveth: Prepare MQ RX adapter and statistics structures
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3 01/15] ibmveth: Add MQ RX hypercall wrappers and call definitions
  2026-07-06 · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v2 1/5] ibmvnic: Move long delayed work on system_dfl_long_wq
  2026-07-06 · Marco Crivellari <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.

• STALE163d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 1/4] PCI/MSI: Conservatively generalize no_64bit_msi into msi_addr_mask
  2026-01-23 · Vivian Wang <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE133d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v4 1/4] PCI/MSI: Conservatively generalize no_64bit_msi into msi_addr_mask
  2026-01-29 · Vivian Wang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE150d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH net,v2] net: wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix dma_free_coherent() in uhdlc_memclean()
  2026-02-06 · Thomas Fourier <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) FAILED: Patch "net: wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix dma_free_coherent() in uhdlc_memclean()" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-03-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) FAILED: Patch "net: wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix dma_free_coherent() in uhdlc_memclean()" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
  2026-03-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) FAILED: Patch "net: wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix dma_free_coherent() in uhdlc_memclean()" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-03-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) FAILED: Patch "net: wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix dma_free_coherent() in uhdlc_memclean()" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
  2026-03-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) FAILED: Patch "net: wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix dma_free_coherent() in uhdlc_memclean()" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree
  2026-03-01 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH net] ibmveth: Disable GSO for packets with small MSS
  2026-04-16 · Mingming Cao <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 2 Tested-by
• STALE82d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH net v2] ibmveth: Disable GSO for packets with small MSS
  2026-04-17 · Mingming Cao <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 2 Tested-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.

• STALE177d [PATCH 21/36] net: phy: mscc: macsec: Use new AES library API
  2026-01-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE177d [PATCH 20/36] chelsio: Use new AES library API
  2026-01-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE177d [PATCH 35/36] lib/crypto: aes: Drop "_new" suffix from en/decryption functions
  2026-01-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE129d [PATCH 02/12] octeontx2-af: siplify rvu_debugfs
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE129d [PATCH 07/12] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE99d [PATCH 3/8] net: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• COLD38d [PATCH 04/14] net: mdio: drop unneeded dependency on OF_GPIO
  2026-03-04 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCH net-next 02/14] dt-bindings: net: dsa: add NETC switch
  2026-03-16 · Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
• STALE113d [PATCH net-next 03/14] net: enetc: add pre-boot initialization for i.MX94 switch
  2026-03-16 · Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
• STALE113d [PATCH net-next 04/14] net: enetc: add basic operations to the FDB table
  2026-03-16 · Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>