checkpatch · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
• M Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Paths

• F scripts/checkpatch.pl

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH] checkpatch: MAINTAINERS: warn on missing paths
  2026-07-12 08:15 · 0 replies in 7d · Eugene Mavick <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] checkpatch: warn on Rust unwrap and expect calls
  2026-07-07 08:21 · 0 replies in 7d · Harish-CS <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies IN LINUX-NEXT: 4 (4M) [PATCH RESEND v2] checkpatch: Don't emit warnings for ID-base USB & PCI DT compatibles
  2026-07-07 07:46 · 0 replies in 7d · Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
  2 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-07
• 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.

• WARM1d [PATCH] checkpatch: MAINTAINERS: warn on missing paths
  2026-07-12 · Eugene Mavick <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] checkpatch: warn on Rust unwrap and expect calls
  2026-07-07 · Harish-CS <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies IN LINUX-NEXT: 4 (4M) [PATCH RESEND v2] checkpatch: Don't emit warnings for ID-base USB & PCI DT compatibles
  2026-07-07 · Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] checkpatch: remove incorrect IIO_DEV_ATTR_ permission-arg rule
  2026-07-06 · Senthilnathan <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v1] checkpatch: Adapt comment to mod_devicetable.h split
  2026-07-06 · Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <hidden>
• COLD19d [RFC] checkpatch: Introduce a check for the nesting of brackets
  2026-06-23 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] From: Senthilnathan <ssenthil1490@gmail.com> Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: remove incorrect IIO_DEV_ATTR_ permission-arg rule
  2026-06-22 · Senthilnathan <hidden>
• COLD31d [PATCH] fs/nls: Change MODULE_LICENSE to use Unicode in place of BSD
  2026-06-12 · Tim Bird <hidden>
• COOLING11d [RFC V2 1/3] lib/vsprintf: Add support for pgtable entries
  2026-06-10 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5] checkpatch: Check WQ_PERCPU or WQ_UNBOUND presence in alloc_workqueue() users
  2026-06-08 · Marco Crivellari <hidden>
• COLD34d [PATCH v4] checkpatch: Check WQ_PERCPU or WQ_UNBOUND presence in alloc_workqueue() users
  2026-06-08 · Marco Crivellari <hidden>
• COLD35d [PATCH v3] checkpatch: Check WQ_PERCPU or WQ_UNBOUND presence in alloc_workqueue() users
  2026-06-05 · Marco Crivellari <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies IN LINUX-NEXT: 1 (1M) [PATCH RESEND] checkpatch: Suppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link:
  2026-06-05 · Cryolitia PukNgae <hidden>
• COLD38d [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Check WQ_PERCPU or WQ_UNBOUND presence in alloc_workqueue() users
  2026-06-04 · Marco Crivellari <hidden>
• COLD38d Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Check WQ_PERCPU or WQ_UNBOUND presence in alloc_workqueue() users
  2026-06-04 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• COLD38d [PATCH] checkpatch: Check WQ_PERCPU or WQ_UNBOUND presence in alloc_workqueue() users
  2026-06-03 · Marco Crivellari <hidden>
• COLD41d Re: Linux 6.1.175
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.209
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.258
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD46d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v4] checkpatch: warn on uppercase N/Y/M as Kconfig tristate literals
  2026-05-27 · Andrew Jones <hidden>
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3] checkpatch: warn on uppercase N/Y/M as Kconfig tristate literals
  2026-05-21 · Andrew Jones <hidden>
• COLD41d Re: [RFC V2 01/14] mm: Abstract printing of pxd_val()
  2026-05-21 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• COLD53d [PATCH v3 3/3] checkpatch: Add new option to force userspace
  2026-05-20 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
• COLD53d [PATCH v3 2/3] checkpatch: Ignore <inttypes.h> format macros for userspace tools
  2026-05-20 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
• COLD53d [PATCH v3 1/3] checkpatch: Add more user space directories to is_userspace()
  2026-05-20 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
• COLD34d [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Don't emit warnings for ID-base USB & PCI DT compatibles
  2026-05-20 · Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2] checkpatch: warn on uppercase N/Y/M as Kconfig tristate literals
  2026-05-19 · Andrew Jones <hidden>
• COLD53d [PATCH -next v2 06/11] checkpatch: Undeprecate rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace()
  2026-05-19 · "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 1/1] checkpatch: Ignore <inttypes.h> format macros for userspace tools
  2026-05-19 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: Skip CamelCase cache for --no-tree without root
  2026-05-19 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>

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 (1M) [PATCH RESEND] checkpatch: Suppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link:
  2026-04-01 · Cryolitia PukNgae via B4 Relay <devnull+cryolitia.uniontech.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] checkpatch: add Assisted-by tag
  2026-04-17 · Shashank Balaji <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE82d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 1/2] checkpatch: Allow passing config directory
  2026-04-20 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE82d 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
• STALE82d 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

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.

• STALE166d [tip: locking/core] checkpatch: Warn about context_unsafe() without comment
  2026-01-05 · tip-bot2 for Marco Elver <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] checkpatch: special-case cacheline group macros
  2026-01-05 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix false DT_SPLIT_BINDING_PATCH warnings
  2026-01-21 · "Rob Herring (Arm)" <robh@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] checkpatch: make the IS_ENABLED macro check warning clearer
  2026-01-23 · Jianyun Gao <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] checkpatch: deprecate pcim_iomap_table() and pcim_iomap_regions()
  2026-03-04 · Carlos López <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] checkpatch: deprecate pcim_iomap_table() and pcim_iomap_regions()
  2026-03-04 · Carlos López <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: ignore memory attribute macros ending with nGnRnE, nGnRE, or nGRE
  2026-03-09 · Liu Dalin <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] checkpatch: error on .orig and .rej files in patches
  2026-03-13 · Matteo Croce <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH] checkpatch: Add check for function pointer arrays in declarations
  2026-04-18 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.83
  2026-04-22 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>