documentation process · Maintained

Maintainers

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

Paths

• F Documentation/dev-tools/
• F Documentation/maintainer/
• F Documentation/process/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: kunit: Test Kconfig entries shouldn't select other configs
  2026-06-27 08:29 · 1 reply in 7d · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• WARM1d [PATCH 0/2] mm/kmemleak: add min_unref_scans to suppress transient false positives
  2026-06-26 15:53 · 1 reply in 7d · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH] Documentation: dev-tools: scripts/container prefers Podman
  2026-06-24 01:38 · 0 replies in 7d · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 0/2] tracing: Move trace_printk.h out of kernel.h
  2026-06-21 09:37 · 1 reply in 7d · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-04
• Yabin Cui <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-06-04
• Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-04
• Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-06
• Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-04

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: kunit: Fix outdated FAQ entries
  2026-06-27 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• WARM1d [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: kunit: Test Kconfig entries shouldn't select other configs
  2026-06-27 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• WARM1d [PATCH 1/2] mm/kmemleak: report leaks only after N consecutive unreferenced scans
  2026-06-26 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH] Documentation: dev-tools: scripts/container prefers Podman
  2026-06-24 · Coiby Xu <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Add CONFIG_TRACE_PRINTK_DEBUGGING to clean up kernel.h
  2026-06-21 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH] docs: kgdb: Fix path of driver options
  2026-06-20 · Zenghui Yu <hidden>
• WARM3d [RFC PATCH 2/2] kasan: hw_tags: Add boot option to elide free time poisoning
  2026-06-12 · Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
• COLD15d [RFC PATCH v2 14/14] Documentation: add kcov-dataflow.rst
  2026-06-11 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH] Documentation: process: fix brackets
  2026-06-11 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD17d IN LINUX-NEXT: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 2/2] kunit: tool: Add (primitive) support for outputting JUnit XML
  2026-06-06 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 15 (14M) [PATCH v4 2/2] kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for Propeller
  2026-06-04 · xur@google.com
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 15 (14M) [PATCH v4 1/2] kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for AutoFDO
  2026-06-04 · xur@google.com
• COLD23d [PATCH v3 2/2] kunit: tool: Add (primitive) support for outputting JUnit XML
  2026-06-04 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• COLD15d [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] kcov: add recursion guard and documentation for kcov-dataflow
  2026-06-03 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH v1] docs: kgdb: Fix stale source file paths
  2026-05-31 · Costa Shulyupin <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 11/11] kernel/api: add syscall enter/exit tracepoints
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH] Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc
  2026-05-29 · Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update ndesaulniers
  2026-05-28 · Nick Desaulniers <hidden>
• COLD30d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [tip: locking/core] compiler-context-analysis: Bump required Clang version to 23
  2026-05-28 · tip-bot2 for Marco Elver <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH] docs: changes.rst: restore pahole 1.26 minimum (regressed by sort)
  2026-05-26 · Zhan Xusheng <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD22d [PATCH v2] kcov: update documentation on remote coverage collection
  2026-05-20 · Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
• COLD33d REVIEWED: 51 (50M) [PATCH v2] docs: submitting-patches: Clarify that "reviewer" is a person
  2026-05-20 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD30d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [tip: locking/core] compiler-context-analysis: Bump required Clang version to 23
  2026-05-20 · tip-bot2 for Marco Elver <hidden>
• COLD38d [PATCH] kcov: update documentation on remote coverage collection
  2026-05-19 · Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>

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.

• STALE166d REVIEWED: 64 (63M) [PATCH] [v3] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content
  2026-01-06 · Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> · 8 Reviewed-by
• STALE159d REVIEWED: 73 (71M) [PATCH] [v5] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content
  2026-01-13 · Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> · 10 Reviewed-by
• STALE155d REVIEWED: 78 (75M) [PATCH] [v6] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content
  2026-01-19 · Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> · 12 Reviewed-by
• STALE151d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH] Documentation: Project continuity
  2026-01-24 · Dan Williams <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE144d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] docs: maintainer-pgp-guide.rst: updated kernel.org link
  2026-02-03 · Amitabh Srivastava <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE101d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v6 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-03-17 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE64d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE67d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 1/2] checkpatch: Allow passing config directory
  2026-04-20 · Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE67d 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
• STALE67d 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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.197
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] docs: improve introduction wording in howto.rst
  2025-12-07 · ᴋᴀʀᴛɪᴋ sʜᴀʜ <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5] docs: improve introduction wording in howto.rst
  2025-12-08 · ᴋᴀʀᴛɪᴋ sʜᴀʜ <hidden>
• STALE178d [PATCH v1 2/2] Documentation: dev-tools: add container.rst page
  2025-12-10 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.62
  2025-12-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.17.12
  2025-12-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.1
  2025-12-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE191d [RFC PATCH v5 01/15] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE191d [RFC PATCH v5 04/15] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE151d [tip: locking/core] compiler-context-analysis: Remove Sparse support
  2026-01-05 · tip-bot2 for Marco Elver <hidden>