broadcom genet ethernet driver · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
• M Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
• R Broadcom internal kernel review list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/brcm,bcmgenet.yaml
• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/brcm,unimac-mdio.yaml
• F drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/
• F drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/unimac.h
• F drivers/net/mdio/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
• F include/linux/platform_data/mdio-bcm-unimac.h

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06

Recent patches

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

• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 10/20] net: bcmgenet: use platform_device_set_of_node()
  2026-07-06 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v2 09/19] net: bcmgenet: use platform_device_set_of_node()
  2026-06-29 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH net] net: bcmgenet: report MDIO busy timeout
  2026-06-23 · Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: bcmgenet: allocate a single-queue netdev
  2026-06-12 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: bcmgenet: collapse TX priority queues to a single queue
  2026-06-12 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: bcmgenet: remove dead priority queue plumbing
  2026-06-12 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• COLD37d [PATCH net-next v2] net: bcmgenet: convert RX path to page_pool
  2026-06-10 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• COLD35d [PATCH net] net: bcmgenet: Use weighted round-robin TX DMA arbitration
  2026-06-10 · Ovidiu Panait <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH net-next] net: bcmgenet: convert RX path to page_pool
  2026-06-02 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH 13/23] net: bcmgenet: use platform_device_set_of_node()
  2026-05-21 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• COLD58d [PATCH net] net: bcmgenet: keep RBUF EEE/PM disabled
  2026-05-20 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE61d REVIEWED: 16 (15M) [PATCH net-next v9 7/7] net: bcmgenet: reject MTU changes incompatible with XDP
  2026-05-06 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE61d [PATCH net-next v9 6/7] net: bcmgenet: add XDP statistics counters
  2026-05-06 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE61d [PATCH net-next v9 5/7] net: bcmgenet: add XDP_REDIRECT and ndo_xdp_xmit support
  2026-05-06 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE61d [PATCH net-next v9 4/7] net: bcmgenet: add XDP_TX support
  2026-05-06 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE61d [PATCH net-next v9 3/7] net: bcmgenet: add basic XDP support (PASS/DROP)
  2026-05-06 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE61d [PATCH net-next v9 1/7] net: bcmgenet: convert RX path to page_pool
  2026-05-06 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE61d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH net-next v9 2/7] net: bcmgenet: register xdp_rxq_info for each RX ring
  2026-05-06 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 16 (15M) [PATCH net-next v8 7/7] net: bcmgenet: reject MTU changes incompatible with XDP
  2026-04-28 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH net-next v8 6/7] net: bcmgenet: add XDP statistics counters
  2026-04-28 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE78d [PATCH net-next v8 5/7] net: bcmgenet: add XDP_REDIRECT and ndo_xdp_xmit support
  2026-04-28 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE78d [PATCH net-next v8 4/7] net: bcmgenet: add XDP_TX support
  2026-04-28 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE78d [PATCH net-next v8 3/7] net: bcmgenet: add basic XDP support (PASS/DROP)
  2026-04-28 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH net-next v8 1/7] net: bcmgenet: convert RX path to page_pool
  2026-04-28 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH net-next v8 2/7] net: bcmgenet: register xdp_rxq_info for each RX ring
  2026-04-28 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 16 (15M) [PATCH net-next v7 7/7] net: bcmgenet: reject MTU changes incompatible with XDP
  2026-04-16 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH net-next v7 6/7] net: bcmgenet: add XDP statistics counters
  2026-04-16 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE84d [PATCH net-next v7 5/7] net: bcmgenet: add XDP_REDIRECT and ndo_xdp_xmit support
  2026-04-16 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 15 (15M) [PATCH net-next v7 2/7] net: bcmgenet: register xdp_rxq_info for each RX ring
  2026-04-16 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH net-next v7 1/7] net: bcmgenet: convert RX path to page_pool
  2026-04-16 · Nicolai Buchwitz <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.

• STALE129d REVIEWED: 30 (30M) [PATCH net v2] net: bcmgenet: fix broken EEE by converting to phylib-managed state
  2026-03-10 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE109d REVIEWED: 17 (15M) [PATCH net 2/2] net: bcmgenet: fix racing timeout handler
  2026-03-26 · justin.chen@broadcom.com · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE108d REVIEWED: 17 (15M) [PATCH net v2 3/4] net: bcmgenet: fix racing timeout handler
  2026-04-01 · Justin Chen <justin.chen@broadcom.com> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE99d REVIEWED: 17 (15M) [PATCH net v3 3/3] net: bcmgenet: fix racing timeout handler
  2026-04-06 · Justin Chen <justin.chen@broadcom.com> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE61d REVIEWED: 16 (15M) [PATCH net-next v9 7/7] net: bcmgenet: reject MTU changes incompatible with XDP
  2026-05-06 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden> · 2 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.

• STALE126d [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: bcmgenet: convert RX path to page_pool
  2026-03-13 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: bcmgenet: register xdp_rxq_info for each RX ring
  2026-03-13 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH net-next 6/6] net: bcmgenet: add XDP statistics counters
  2026-03-13 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE126d [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: bcmgenet: add XDP_REDIRECT and ndo_xdp_xmit support
  2026-03-13 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE123d [PATCH net-next v2 1/6] net: bcmgenet: convert RX path to page_pool
  2026-03-15 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE123d [PATCH net-next v2 2/6] net: bcmgenet: register xdp_rxq_info for each RX ring
  2026-03-15 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE123d [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] net: bcmgenet: add XDP statistics counters
  2026-03-15 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE123d [PATCH net-next v2 5/6] net: bcmgenet: add XDP_REDIRECT and ndo_xdp_xmit support
  2026-03-15 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE110d [PATCH net-next v3 6/6] net: bcmgenet: add XDP statistics counters
  2026-03-19 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
• STALE112d [PATCH net-next v4 2/6] net: bcmgenet: register xdp_rxq_info for each RX ring
  2026-03-23 · Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>