networking drivers · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
• M Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• M Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• M Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/
• F Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
• F drivers/connector/
• F drivers/net/
• F drivers/ptp/
• F drivers/s390/net/
• F include/dt-bindings/net/
• F include/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/linux/etherdevice.h
• F include/linux/ethtool_netlink.h
• F include/linux/fcdevice.h
• F include/linux/fddidevice.h
• F include/linux/if_*
• F include/linux/inetdevice.h
• F include/linux/netdev*
• F include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink*
• F include/uapi/linux/if_*
• F include/uapi/linux/net_shaper.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netdev*
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/bluetooth/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/
• X drivers/net/can/
• X drivers/net/wireless/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 00/15][pull request] Introduce iXD driver
  2026-07-10 21:53 · 15 replies in 7d · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v5 00/15] bnxt_en: Add kTLS TX offload support
  2026-07-10 04:25 · 15 replies in 7d · Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net-next v3 0/9] netconsole: stop charging netpoll users for netconsole-only data
  2026-07-10 11:54 · 8 replies in 7d · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v7 00/15] Support for onsemi's S2500 10Base-T1S MAC-PHY
  2026-07-08 17:12 · 14 replies in 7d · Selvamani Rajagopal via B4 Relay <devnull+Selvamani.Rajagopal.onsemi.com@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v2 00/12] ax88179_178a: Add support for AX88179A-based chips
  2026-07-08 18:40 · 12 replies in 7d · Birger Koblitz <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 0/7] selftests: net: add missing kconfig and settings
  2026-07-10 18:05 · 3 replies in 7d · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 00/10] net: dsa: microchip: add PTP support for KSZ8463
  2026-07-09 06:42 · 8 replies in 7d · Bastien Curutchet (Schneider Electric) <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add RTL83xx support
  2026-07-09 06:42 · 8 replies in 7d · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v6 0/7] r8169: add support for phylink
  2026-07-09 10:09 · 7 replies in 7d · javen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v9 0/9] BIG TCP for UDP tunnels
  2026-07-10 13:43 · 3 replies in 7d · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Aleksandr Loktionov <hidden>
  61 attestations (61 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
  52 attestations (52 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-09
• Dave Marquardt <hidden>
  48 attestations (48 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-06
• Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com>
  41 attestations (41 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Andy Gospodarek <hidden>
  36 attestations (36 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
  28 attestations (28 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-03
• Steen Hegelund <Steen.Hegelund@microchip.com>
  25 attestations (25 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-08
• Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
  19 attestations (19 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
  18 attestations (18 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
  18 attestations (15 Reviewed-by, 3 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-09

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] gtp: check skb_pull_data() return in gtp1u_send_echo_resp()
  2026-07-10 · Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] ethtool: Embed FEC hist ranges as buffer in struct
  2026-07-10 · Eric Joyner <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] selftests: netconsole: only restore MAC when it changed on resume
  2026-07-10 · Andre Carvalho <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (2M) [PATCH net-next v4 15/15] ixd: add devlink support
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4 14/15] ixd: add the core initialization
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4 12/15] ixd: add basic driver framework for Intel(R) Control Plane Function
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4 13/15] ixd: add reset checks and initialize the mailbox
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH net-next v4 11/15] idpf: print a debug message and bail in case of non-event ctlq message
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH net-next v4 10/15] idpf: make mbx_task queueing and cancelling more consistent
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v4 09/15] idpf: refactor idpf to use libie control queues
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (2M) [PATCH net-next v4 08/15] idpf: refactor idpf to use libie_pci APIs
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH net-next v4 07/15] idpf: remove unused code for getting RSS info from device
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4 06/15] idpf: remove 'vport_params_reqd' field
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4 05/15] libie: add bookkeeping support for control queue messages
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4 04/15] libie: add control queue support
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4 03/15] libeth: allow to create fill queues without NAPI
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4 02/15] libie: add PCI device initialization helpers to libie
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH net-next v4 01/15] virtchnl: move virtchnl and virtchnl2 headers to 'include/linux/net/intel'
  2026-07-10 · Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v4] net: mana: Add handler for sriov configure
  2026-07-10 · Haiyang Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 7/7] selftests: netconsole: ignore busywait errors
  2026-07-10 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 6/7] selftests: drv-net: add missing kconfig for psp.py
  2026-07-10 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net 5/7] selftests: drv-net: increase timeout
  2026-07-10 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net v2] net: dpaa: fix mode setting
  2026-07-10 · Michael Walle <mwalle@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v9 8/9] geneve: Enable BIG TCP packets
  2026-07-10 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v9 7/9] vxlan: Enable BIG TCP packets
  2026-07-10 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH net-next v9 1/9] net: Use helpers to get/set UDP len tree-wide
  2026-07-10 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net-next] net: mana: Add debug knob to skip TX timeout recovery reset
  2026-07-10 · Aditya Garg <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net] net: stmmac: enable the MAC on link up at 10G on 10GBASE-R
  2026-07-10 · vadik likholetov <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v3 9/9] netconsole: move remote_mac from struct netpoll to netconsole_target
  2026-07-10 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v3 8/9] netconsole: move local_port / remote_port from struct netpoll to netconsole_target
  2026-07-10 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.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.

• STALE193d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [RFC net-next v17 2/6] eea: introduce ring and descriptor structures
  2025-12-29 · Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE193d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [RFC net-next v17 1/6] eea: introduce PCI framework
  2025-12-29 · Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE193d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [RFC net-next v17 3/6] eea: probe the netdevice and create adminq
  2025-12-29 · Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE193d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [RFC net-next v17 4/6] eea: create/destroy rx,tx queues for netdevice open and stop
  2025-12-29 · Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [RFC net-next v17 6/6] eea: introduce callback for ndo_get_stats64
  2025-12-29 · Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [RFC net-next v17 5/6] eea: introduce ethtool support
  2025-12-29 · Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE189d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v4 net 1/2] ipvlan: Make the addrs_lock be per port
  2025-12-30 · Dmitry Skorodumov <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE187d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2] net/ena: fix missing lock when update devlink params
  2025-12-31 · Xiao Liang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE191d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [net-next v3 5/8] net: wwan: hwsim: refactor to support more port types
  2025-12-31 · Slark Xiao <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE191d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [net-next v3 1/8] net: wwan: core: remove unused port_id field
  2025-12-31 · Slark Xiao <hidden> · 1 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.

• STALE209d [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 1/4] dt-bindings: net: dsa: add bindings for MaxLinear MxL862xx
  2025-12-14 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 4/4] net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches
  2025-12-14 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• STALE177d [PATCH RFC net-next v3 4/4] net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches
  2025-12-15 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• STALE207d [PATCH net-next v2 2/5] net: thunderbolt: Allow changing MTU of the device
  2025-12-15 · Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
• STALE207d [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] bonding: 3ad: Add support for SPEED_80000
  2025-12-15 · Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
• STALE207d [PATCH net-next v2 5/5] net: thunderbolt: Allow reading link settings
  2025-12-15 · Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
• STALE182d [PATCH v2 1/4] net: stmmac: s32: use a syscon for S32_PHY_INTF_SEL_RGMII
  2025-12-15 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• STALE206d [PATCH RFC net-next v2 01/12] dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: Add DPLL pin properties
  2025-12-15 · Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
• STALE206d [PATCH RFC net-next v2 03/12] net: eth: Add helpers to find DPLL pin firmware node
  2025-12-15 · Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
• STALE206d [PATCH RFC net-next v2 11/12] drivers: Add support for DPLL reference count tracking
  2025-12-15 · Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>