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• M Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
• R Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

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• F Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-07

Recent patches

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

• COOLING7d [PATCH] checkpatch: warn on Rust unwrap and expect calls
  2026-07-07 · Harish-CS <hidden>
• STALE79d [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add --json output mode
  2026-04-25 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE84d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v8 1/2] checkpatch: Allow passing config directory
  2026-04-21 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
• STALE84d IN LINUX-NEXT: 1 (1M) [PATCH v8 2/2] checkpatch: Add option to not force /* */ for SPDX
  2026-04-21 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v7 1/2] checkpatch: Allow passing config directory
  2026-04-21 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 2/2] checkpatch: Add option to not force /* */ for SPDX
  2026-04-21 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 2/2] checkpatch: Add option to not force /* */ for SPDX
  2026-04-20 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 1/2] checkpatch: Allow passing config directory
  2026-04-20 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
• STALE85d [PATCH v5 2/2] checkpatch: Add option to not force /* */ for SPDX
  2026-04-17 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
• STALE79d [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add --json output mode
  2026-04-08 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE79d [PATCH] checkpatch: add --json output mode
  2026-04-06 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE107d [PATCH] checkpatch: allow correctly handle full files on stdin
  2026-03-26 · Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
• STALE179d [PATCH] checkpatch: Add an invalid patch separator test
  2026-01-16 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE223d REVIEWED: 24 (23M) [PATCH v7] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-12-03 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE198d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/1] docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h
  2025-11-26 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE230d [PATCH v1 1/1] docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h
  2025-11-26 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE230d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH RESEND v6] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-11-25 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE232d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-11-24 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE234d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH RESEND v4] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-11-17 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-11-07 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE250d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH RESEND v3] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-11-04 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-10-25 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE261d [PATCH v2 2/2] add check for pointers with __free attribute initialized to NULL
  2025-10-24 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE261d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/2] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-10-24 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE264d [PATCH] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  2025-10-21 · Ally Heev <hidden>
• STALE266d [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style
  2025-10-17 · Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
• STALE266d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: checkpatch: Align block comment style
  2025-10-17 · Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
• STALE270d [PATCH] docs: checkpatch: Align block comment style
  2025-10-17 · Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
• STALE278d [PATCH v2 2/2] checkpatch: document new check PLACEHOLDER_USE
  2025-09-17 · Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>
• STALE307d [PATCH v2 13/13] Documentation: checkpatch: Convert kernel docs references
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <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.

• STALE84d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 1/2] checkpatch: Allow passing config directory
  2026-04-20 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 2/2] checkpatch: Add option to not force /* */ for SPDX
  2026-04-20 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 2/2] checkpatch: Add option to not force /* */ for SPDX
  2026-04-21 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> · 1 Reviewed-by