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

Recent patches

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

• COLD58d [RFC] docs: netdev: additional info requirements for bug fixes
  2026-07-27 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• COLD41d [PATCH net-next 2/2] docs: netdev: clarify expected interactions with LLMs
  2026-07-24 · Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
• COLD41d [PATCH net-next 1/2] docs: netdev: clarify handling of idle patches
  2026-07-24 · Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
• COLD27d [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC] docs: netdev: suggest that it's okay to rewrite AI generated patches
  2026-06-03 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH net-next] docs: exclude driver and netdevsim bugs
  2026-06-03 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE117d [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture
  2026-05-18 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE140d [PATCH 4/5] docs: fix repeated prepositions across documentation
  2026-05-08 · Adrien Reynard <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH] dept: update documentation function names to match implementation
  2026-04-28 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• STALE157d [PATCH] docs: maintainer-netdev: fix typo in "targeting"
  2026-04-20 · Ariful Islam Shoikot <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH net-next] docs: netdev: document AI-assisted review tooling
  2026-04-06 · Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
• STALE171d [PATCH net-next] docs: netdev: improve wording of reviewer guidance
  2026-04-06 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE204d [PATCH net-next] docs: netdev: refine netdevsim testing guidance
  2026-03-04 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE251d [PATCH v2] docs: netdev: refine 15-patch limit
  2026-01-15 · Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
• STALE256d [PATCH] docs: netdev: refine 15-patch limit
  2026-01-13 · Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
• STALE83d Re: [PATCH v18 25/42] dept: add documents for dept
  2025-12-06 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH v18 25/42] dept: add documents for dept
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE381d [PATCH v2 13/13] Documentation: checkpatch: Convert kernel docs references
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE381d [PATCH v2 07/13] Documentation: kasan: Use internal link to kunit
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE389d [PATCH 07/14] Documentation: kasan: Use internal link to kunit
  2025-08-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE389d [PATCH 14/14] Documentation: checkpatch: Convert kernel docs references
  2025-08-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE404d [PATCH net-next] docs: netdev: refine the clean-up patch examples
  2025-08-15 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE456d [PATCH net] docs: netdev: correct the heading level for co-posting selftests
  2025-06-26 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE440d [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] checkpatch: check for comment explaining rgmii(|-rxid|-txid) PHY modes
  2025-06-24 · Matthias Schiffer <hidden>
• STALE462d LANDED [PATCH] docs: process: discourage pointless boilerplate kdoc
  2025-06-14 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE460d [PATCH net-next 4/4] checkpatch: check for comment explaining rgmii(|-rxid|-txid) PHY modes
  2025-04-15 · Matthias Schiffer <hidden>
• STALE538d [PATCH] docs: Remove literal markup from Documentation/ paths
  2025-04-04 · Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <hidden>
• STALE565d [PATCH net-next] docs: netdev: add a note on selftest posting
  2025-03-06 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• STALE599d [PATCH net] docs: netdev: Document guidance on inline functions
  2025-02-03 · Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
• STALE620d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] docs: netdev: document requirements for Supported status
  2025-01-11 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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 [RFC] docs: netdev: suggest that it's okay to rewrite AI generated patches
  2026-06-03 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• COLD27d [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>