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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] net: run netdev work under the ops-compat lock
  2026-09-04 18:01 · 0 replies in 7d · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v16 00/10] net: phy_port: SFP modules representation and phy_port listing
  2026-09-02 21:23 · 2 replies in 7d · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v4 0/7] netconsole: validate a target's IP address configuration
  2026-09-03 16:26 · 1 reply in 7d · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net v7 0/1] tcp: bound SYN-ACK timers to reqsk timeout range
  2026-09-03 06:18 · 1 reply in 7d · Zhiling Zou <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 0/6] vsock: assign the guest vsock device to a network namespace
  2026-09-02 23:01 · 1 reply in 7d · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 net-next 00/15] neighbour: Namespacify arp_tbl and nd_tbl.
  2026-09-02 20:38 · 1 reply in 7d · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• WARM2d netvsc.rst: is XDP_REDIRECT still actually unsupported?
  2026-09-02 19:39 · 1 reply in 7d · Christian Melendez <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v8 0/6] hardware pacing offload
  2026-09-02 18:17 · 1 reply in 7d · Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 00/12] leds: Add support for hardware-initiated hardware control trigger transition
  2026-09-01 18:14 · 2 replies in 7d · Rong Zhang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH nf-next v2 1/2] netfilter: flowtable: carry a priority into the offload
  2026-09-02 15:52 · 0 replies in 7d · Julius Bairaktaris <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Ike Panhc <ikepanhc@gmail.com>
  4 attestations (4 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-01
• Konstantin Sinyuk <ksinyuk@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-24
• Vega <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-03
• Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-16
• Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-02
• Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-15
• Aleksandr Loktionov <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-15
• Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-12
• Bharath R <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-12
• David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-06

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] net: run netdev work under the ops-compat lock
  2026-09-04 · Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v4 7/7] docs: netconsole: document local_ip auto-selection
  2026-09-03 · Gustavo Luiz Duarte <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net v7 1/1] tcp: bound SYN-ACK timers to reqsk timeout range
  2026-09-03 · Zhiling Zou <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 2/6] vsock: add IOCTL_VM_SOCKETS_ASSIGN_G2H_NETNS
  2026-09-02 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v16 10/10] Documentation: networking: Update the phy_port infrastructure description
  2026-09-02 · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v16 08/10] netlink: specs: Add ethernet port listing with ethtool
  2026-09-02 · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 net-next 12/15] neighbour: Namespacify neigh_tables.
  2026-09-02 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Documentation: netvsc: Remove stale "not yet supported" XDP_REDIRECT note
  2026-09-02 · Christian Melendez <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v8 1/6] net: rtnetlink: add pacing_offload_horizon attribute to net_device
  2026-09-02 · Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH nf-next v2 1/2] netfilter: flowtable: carry a priority into the offload
  2026-09-02 · Julius Bairaktaris <hidden>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 net-next 12/15] neighbour: Namespacify neigh_tables.
  2026-09-01 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 09/12] leds: trigger: Add led_trigger_notify_hw_control_changed() interface
  2026-09-01 · Rong Zhang <hidden>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 04/12] leds: trigger: Add offloaded() callback and provide trigger_may_offload attribute
  2026-09-01 · Rong Zhang <hidden>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH net-next real v4] net: Replace %pK output with 0
  2026-09-01 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v15 07/12] net: Document PCS subsystem
  2026-09-01 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2] net: fec: support RX flushing via an ethtool private flag
  2026-09-01 · "A. Sverdlin" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next v7 1/6] net: rtnetlink: add pacing_offload_horizon attribute to net_device
  2026-08-31 · Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next] net: stmmac: Remove ARP offload code
  2026-08-31 · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v26 net-next 01/10] net/nebula-matrix: add minimum nbl build framework
  2026-08-31 · illusion.wang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH iwl-next 7/8] e1000e: use libeth page_pool for Rx
  2026-08-30 · Matt Vollrath <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 6/6] landlock: Document MPTCP access rights
  2026-08-30 · Günther Noack <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net v2] net: unix: reject negative max_dgram_qlen values
  2026-08-29 · Yingjie Wang <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH net-next] net: fec: support RX flushing via an ethtool private flag
  2026-08-25 · "A. Sverdlin" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH net v8 12/12] rxrpc: Remove OOB challenge/response code
  2026-08-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH net v8 10/12] rxrpc: Pass appdata key to rxrpc_call and thence to rxrpc_bundle
  2026-08-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH net v8 03/12] rxrpc: Fix packet encryption error handling
  2026-08-24 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH 10/12] drm/fabric: make the synthetic provider writable
  2026-08-24 · Konstantin Sinyuk <ksinyuk@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH 12/12] drm/fabric: add mutation netlink selftests
  2026-08-24 · Konstantin Sinyuk <ksinyuk@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH 07/12] drm/fabric: add topology-provisioning core
  2026-08-24 · Konstantin Sinyuk <ksinyuk@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH 08/12] drm/fabric: add provisioning netlink uAPI
  2026-08-24 · Konstantin Sinyuk <ksinyuk@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE188d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 1/5] drm/ras: Introduce the DRM RAS infrastructure over generic netlink
  2026-02-23 · Riana Tauro <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE189d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH net-next v3] docs: ethtool: clarify the bit-by-bit bitset format description
  2026-02-25 · Yohei Kojima <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE185d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v9 1/5] drm/ras: Introduce the DRM RAS infrastructure over generic netlink
  2026-02-28 · Riana Tauro <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE184d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] vsock: add G2H fallback for CIDs not owned by H2G transport
  2026-03-03 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE176d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v4] vsock: add G2H fallback for CIDs not owned by H2G transport
  2026-03-04 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [net-next v8 05/10] ipv6: Document defaults for max_{dst|hbh}_opts_number sysctls
  2026-03-14 · Tom Herbert <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE164d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 10/10] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-03-19 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE161d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v2] docs/mlx5: Fix typo subfuction
  2026-03-24 · Ryohei Kinugawa <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE156d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 10/10] x86/vmscape: Add cmdline vmscape=on to override attack vector controls
  2026-03-24 · Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE150d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next 13/15] ice: add support for unmanaged DPLL on E830 NIC
  2026-03-30 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com> · 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.

• STALE175d [PATCH 28/38] docs: kdoc_re: prevent adding whitespaces on sub replacements
  2026-02-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH 29/38] docs: xforms_lists.py: use CFuntion to handle all function macros
  2026-02-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH 30/38] docs: kdoc_files: allows the caller to use a different xforms class
  2026-02-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH 33/38] docs: kdoc_output: add optional args to ManOutput class
  2026-02-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH 32/38] docs: kdoc_files: document KernelFiles() ABI
  2026-02-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH 34/38] docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: better handle troff .TH markups
  2026-02-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH 36/38] docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: don't allow "/" on file names
  2026-02-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH 35/38] docs: kdoc_output: use a more standard order for .TH on man pages
  2026-02-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH 37/38] docs: kdoc_output: describe the class init parameters
  2026-02-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
• STALE175d [PATCH 38/38] docs: kdoc_output: pick a better default for modulename
  2026-02-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>