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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING4d [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 00/18] wifi: Add Seamless Mobility Domain (SMD) AP support
  2026-09-08 17:11 · 10 replies in 7d · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH wireless-next 00/18] wifi: Add Seamless Mobility Domain (SMD) AP support
  2026-09-07 20:34 · 10 replies in 7d · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH 00/13 net-next] Allow compiling an IPv6-only kernel network stack
  2026-09-10 14:50 · 1 reply in 7d · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Sidhanta Sahu <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-08
• Rohan Dutta <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-08
• Pooventhiran G <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-08
• Aditya Sathish <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-08

Recent patches

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

• WARM3d [PATCH 01/13 net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-09-10 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 18/18] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_GET_SMD_CTX
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 16/18] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_SET_SMD_CTX
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 13/18] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Handle UHR Link Reconfiguration frame
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 11/18] wifi: mac80211: Enable skb extensions along with mac80211
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 10/18] wifi: mac80211: Define SMD BSS Transition context for transport
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 09/18] wifi: mac80211: Send BlockAck policy in AMPDU action
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 08/18] wifi: mac80211: Add driver_op for SMD substate changes
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 07/18] wifi: nl80211/mac80211: Add SMD BSS Transition sub-state STA flags
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH RESEND wireless-next 05/18] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Parse SMD parameters in STA addition/modification
  2026-09-08 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING4d [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>
• COOLING6d [PATCH wireless-next 16/18] wifi: mac80211: Add mac80211 support to handle NL80211_CMD_SET_SMD_CTX
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH wireless-next 13/18] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Handle UHR Link Reconfiguration frame
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH wireless-next 11/18] wifi: mac80211: Enable skb extensions along with mac80211
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH wireless-next 10/18] wifi: mac80211: Define SMD BSS Transition context for transport
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH wireless-next 09/18] wifi: mac80211: Send BlockAck policy in AMPDU action
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH wireless-next 08/18] wifi: mac80211: Add driver_op for SMD substate changes
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH wireless-next 07/18] wifi: nl80211/mac80211: Add SMD BSS Transition sub-state STA flags
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH wireless-next 05/18] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Parse SMD parameters in STA addition/modification
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH wireless-next 04/18] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: Configure AP with SMD capabilities
  2026-09-07 · Pooventhiran G <hidden>
• COLD33d [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: guard drv_net_setup_tc() against unbound AP_VLAN sdata
  2026-08-11 · Ayushman Rout <hidden>
• STALE63d [PATCH 01/13 RFC net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-07-12 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COLD46d [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] wifi: mac80211: use ifa_dev from event argument
  2026-07-11 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>
• STALE66d Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv4: clear dev->ip_ptr before destroying inetdev
  2026-07-09 · Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
• STALE95d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.10] wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper
  2026-06-09 · Alexey Panov <hidden>
• STALE112d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.15.y] wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper
  2026-05-25 · Li hongliang <hidden>
• STALE112d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.1.y] wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper
  2026-05-25 · Li hongliang <hidden>
• STALE112d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.6.y] wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper
  2026-05-25 · Li hongliang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs
  2026-05-15 · Alexandru Hossu <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.

• STALE157d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 net-next] net: use get_random_u{16,32,64}() where appropriate
  2026-04-07 · David Carlier <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE146d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-6.12] wifi: mac80211: properly handle error in ieee80211_add_virtual_monitor
  2026-04-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE112d 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
• STALE112d 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
• STALE112d 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
• STALE95d 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 [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: check ieee80211_rx_data_set_link return in pubsta MLO path
  2026-04-22 · Michael Bommarito <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs
  2026-05-15 · Alexandru Hossu <hidden>
• COLD46d [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] wifi: mac80211: use ifa_dev from event argument
  2026-07-11 · Yuyang Huang <hidden>