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mac80211 · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/mac80211-injection.rst
• F Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/mac80211_hwsim.rst
• F drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim*.[ch]
• F include/net/mac80211.h
• F net/mac80211/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Nicolas Dichtel <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-10-12
• <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-10-09

Recent patches

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

• COOLING13d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v11 2/6] net: change netdev_hw_addr_list count through helpers
  2026-10-12 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5.10/5.15 v2] wifi: mac80211: mesh: release the channel if start fails
  2026-10-09 · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH 5.10/5.15] wifi: mac80211: mesh: release the channel if start fails
  2026-10-08 · Alexander Martyniuk <hidden>
• COLD24d SUPERSEDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v10 2/6] net: change netdev_hw_addr_list count through helpers
  2026-10-07 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH 14/16 net-next v3] wifi: mac80211: replace CONFIG_INET with CONFIG_IPV4 guards
  2026-09-30 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COLD28d SUPERSEDED [PATCH net-next v9 2/6] net: change netdev_hw_addr_list count through helpers
  2026-09-30 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• COLD33d [PATCH net 10/10] netfilter: flowtable: restore ieee80211 forward path
  2026-09-30 · Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
• COLD32d SUPERSEDED [PATCH 14/16 net-next v2] wifi: mac80211: replace CONFIG_INET with CONFIG_IPV4 guards
  2026-09-28 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COLD35d [PATCH net 11/11] netfilter: flowtable: restore ieee80211 forward path
  2026-09-27 · Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH 1/1] wifi: mac80211: drop oversized fragments to avoid extra_len overflow
  2026-09-18 · Yuchao Zhang <hidden>
• COLD35d SUPERSEDED [PATCH 01/13 net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-09-10 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COLD54d [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 18/18] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_GET_SMD_CTX
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD54d SUPERSEDED [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 16/18] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_SET_SMD_CTX
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD54d SUPERSEDED [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 13/18] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Handle UHR Link Reconfiguration frame
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD54d SUPERSEDED [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 11/18] wifi: mac80211: Enable skb extensions along with mac80211
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD54d SUPERSEDED [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 10/18] wifi: mac80211: Define SMD BSS Transition context for transport
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD54d SUPERSEDED [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 09/18] wifi: mac80211: Send BlockAck policy in AMPDU action
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD54d SUPERSEDED [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 08/18] wifi: mac80211: Add driver_op for SMD substate changes
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD54d SUPERSEDED [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 07/18] wifi: nl80211/mac80211: Add SMD BSS Transition sub-state STA flags
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD54d SUPERSEDED [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 05/18] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Parse SMD parameters in STA addition/modification
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD54d SUPERSEDED [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 04/18] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Configure AP with SMD capabilities
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH wireless-next 18/18] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_GET_SMD_CTX
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD56d SUPERSEDED [PATCH wireless-next 16/18] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_SET_SMD_CTX
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD56d SUPERSEDED [PATCH wireless-next 13/18] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Handle UHR Link Reconfiguration frame
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD56d SUPERSEDED [PATCH wireless-next 11/18] wifi: mac80211: Enable skb extensions along with mac80211
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD56d SUPERSEDED [PATCH wireless-next 10/18] wifi: mac80211: Define SMD BSS Transition context for transport
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD56d SUPERSEDED [PATCH wireless-next 09/18] wifi: mac80211: Send BlockAck policy in AMPDU action
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD56d SUPERSEDED [PATCH wireless-next 08/18] wifi: mac80211: Add driver_op for SMD substate changes
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD56d SUPERSEDED [PATCH wireless-next 07/18] wifi: nl80211/mac80211: Add SMD BSS Transition sub-state STA flags
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD56d SUPERSEDED [PATCH wireless-next 05/18] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Parse SMD parameters in STA addition/modification
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <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.

• STALE162d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.6.y] wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper
  2026-05-25 · Li hongliang <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE162d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.1.y] wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper
  2026-05-25 · Li hongliang <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE162d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.15.y] wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper
  2026-05-25 · Li hongliang <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE145d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.10] wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper
  2026-06-09 · Alexey Panov <hidden> · 1 Tested-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 LANDED [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: check ieee80211_rx_data_set_link return in pubsta MLO path
  2026-04-22 · Michael Bommarito <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs
  2026-05-15 · Alexandru Hossu <hidden>
• STALE95d LANDED [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] wifi: mac80211: use ifa_dev from event argument +2 more in this series
  2026-07-11 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH wireless-next 18/18] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_GET_SMD_CTX +17 more in this series
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH 1/1] wifi: mac80211: drop oversized fragments to avoid extra_len overflow
  2026-09-18 · Yuchao Zhang <hidden>
• COLD35d [PATCH net 11/11] netfilter: flowtable: restore ieee80211 forward path +10 more in this series
  2026-09-27 · Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
• COLD33d [PATCH net 10/10] netfilter: flowtable: restore ieee80211 forward path +9 more in this series
  2026-09-30 · Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
• COLD28d [PATCH 14/16 net-next v3] wifi: mac80211: replace CONFIG_INET with CONFIG_IPV4 guards +15 more in this series
  2026-09-30 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>