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 v11 00/12] enic: SR-IOV V2 admin channel and MBOX protocol
  2026-07-03 18:10 · 12 replies in 7d · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 net-next 00/14] net: enetc: cleanups and improvements
  2026-07-03 10:43 · 14 replies in 7d · <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 00/17] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: support for Remote Management Unit
  2026-07-03 07:48 · 15 replies in 7d · Luke Howard <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v2 00/12] net: mctp: usb: Add support for MCTP-over-USB v1.1
  2026-07-03 05:48 · 12 replies in 7d · Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next 00/12] net: dsa: support for inband management of switches
  2026-07-03 07:31 · 10 replies in 7d · Luke Howard <hidden>
• WARM2d [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v5 00/12] Add ACL support
  2026-07-02 11:30 · 12 replies in 7d · Marcin Szycik <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 0/6] r8169: add support for phylink
  2026-07-03 09:25 · 6 replies in 7d · javen <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2 net-next 00/14] net: enetc: cleanups and improvements
  2026-07-02 03:26 · 14 replies in 7d · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v2 00/15] ibmveth: Add multi-queue RX support
  2026-07-01 22:26 · 15 replies in 7d · Mingming Cao <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2 net-next 00/14] net: Support per-netns device unregistration
  2026-07-03 00:10 · 7 replies in 7d · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Aleksandr Loktionov <hidden>
  73 attestations (73 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-02
• Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
  47 attestations (47 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-03
• Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
  33 attestations (31 Reviewed-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-03
• Dave Marquardt <hidden>
  33 attestations (33 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
  32 attestations (32 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-30
• Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com>
  28 attestations (28 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Andy Gospodarek <hidden>
  24 attestations (24 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
  19 attestations (17 Reviewed-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-03
• Mieczyslaw Nalewaj <hidden>
  19 attestations (18 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-02
• Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
  18 attestations (18 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-06

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net] tun/tap & vhost-net: make qdisc backpressure opt-in via IFF_BACKPRESSURE
  2026-07-04 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH net-next v6 4/4] net: dsa: initial support for MT7628 embedded switch
  2026-07-04 · Joris Vaisvila <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH net-next v6 2/4] net: phy: mediatek: add phy driver for MT7628 built-in Fast Ethernet PHYs
  2026-07-04 · Joris Vaisvila <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v6 1/4] dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MT7628 ESW
  2026-07-04 · Joris Vaisvila <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4] r8169: migrate Rx path to page_pool, prepare for XDP
  2026-07-04 · Atharva Potdar <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v3 2/2] octeon_ep_vf: fix skb frags overflow in the RX path
  2026-07-04 · Maoyi Xie <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v3 1/2] octeon_ep: fix skb frags overflow in the RX path
  2026-07-04 · Maoyi Xie <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCHv2 net] net: emac: mal: replace devm_request_irq with request_irq to fix probe error race
  2026-07-04 · Rosen Penev <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCHv2 net] net: emac: mal: fix W1C write race in ICINTSTAT clearing
  2026-07-04 · Rosen Penev <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 1/2] dt-bindings: net: nfc: samsung,s3fwrn5: add S3NRN4V and clk-req-gpios
  2026-07-03 · Jorijn van der Graaf <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v11 07/12] enic: add MBOX core send and receive for admin channel
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v11 03/12] enic: add admin channel open and close for SR-IOV
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v11 01/12] enic: cancel tx_hang_reset work on device removal
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v11 12/12] enic: re-establish V2 VF admin channel and PF registration after reset
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v11 08/12] enic: add MBOX PF handlers for VF register and capability
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v11 10/12] enic: wire V2 SR-IOV enable with admin channel and MBOX
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v11 06/12] enic: define MBOX message types and header structures
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v11 11/12] enic: add V2 VF probe with admin channel and PF registration
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v11 09/12] enic: add MBOX VF handlers for capability, register and link state
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v11 05/12] enic: add admin CQ service with MSI-X interrupt and workqueue polling
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v11 04/12] enic: add admin RQ buffer management
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v11 02/12] enic: verify firmware supports V2 SR-IOV at probe time
  2026-07-03 · Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 3/3] net: dsa: motorcomm: Add LED support
  2026-07-03 · David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v4 2/3] net: dsa: motorcomm: Split SMI module
  2026-07-03 · David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v4 1/3] net: dsa: motorcomm: Move to subdirectory
  2026-07-03 · David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH] net: qed: Fix spelling typo in qed_dcbx.c comment
  2026-07-03 · Praveen Rajendran <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [RESEND PATCH] net/mlx5: Fix L3 tunnel entropy refcount leak
  2026-07-03 · lirongqing <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH nf-next v4 1/6] net: netfilter: Add ether_type to net_device_path_ctx
  2026-07-03 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] net : bonding : Remove TODO comment about retrying setting the MAC
  2026-07-03 · Paritosh Potukuchi <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] net: airoha: add preliminary support to configure tx hw QoS queue during flowtable offloading
  2026-07-03 · Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@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.

• STALE158d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH rdma-next v2 07/11] net/mlx5: Drop MR cache related code
  2025-12-22 · Edward Srouji <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE165d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH net-next 1/2] netconsole: extract message fragmentation into send_msg_udp()
  2025-12-22 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE171d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH iwl-next v4] idpf: export RX hardware timestamping information to XDP
  2025-12-23 · Mina Almasry <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE190d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] bnxt_en: Fix potential data corruption with HW GRO/LRO
  2025-12-24 · Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE157d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 1/2] ice: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ice_vsi_set_napi_queues
  2025-12-25 · Aaron Ma <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE157d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 2/2] ice: recap the VSI and QoS info after rebuild
  2025-12-25 · Aaron Ma <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE180d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH net 5/5] net/mlx5e: Dealloc forgotten PSP RX modify header
  2025-12-25 · Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE156d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net v3 1/2] i40e: drop udp_tunnel_get_rx_info() call from i40e_open()
  2025-12-28 · <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE156d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v3 2/2] ice: drop udp_tunnel_get_rx_info() call from ndo_open()
  2025-12-28 · <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE187d 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

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.

• STALE205d RE: [PATCH v2] igc: Enhance xsk wakeup for split IRQ and fix PTP TX wakeup
  2025-12-07 · Behera, VIVEK <hidden>
• STALE207d [PATCH 1/8] net: macb: move Rx buffers alloc from link up to open
  2025-12-08 · Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
• STALE197d [PATCH net v4 3/4] net: dsa: mxl-gsw1xx: fix .shutdown driver operation
  2025-12-09 · Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH] fjes: Add missing iounmap in fjes_hw_init()
  2025-12-10 · Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] net: usb: sr9700: support devices with virtual driver CD
  2025-12-11 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE177d [PATCH RFC net-next 03/13] net: eth: Add helpers to find DPLL pin firmware node
  2025-12-11 · Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
• STALE177d [PATCH RFC net-next 12/13] ice: dpll: Enable reference count tracking
  2025-12-11 · Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
• STALE198d [PATCH net-next v1 3/3] net: phy: micrel: Add keep-preamble-before-sfd property
  2025-12-12 · Stefan Eichenberger <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH net v1 3/3] octeon_ep_vf: ensure dbell BADDR updation
  2025-12-12 · Vimlesh Kumar <hidden>
• STALE200d [PATCH net-next 1/2] dt-bindings: net: dsa: lantiq,gswip: add MaxLinear R(G)MII slew rate
  2025-12-12 · "A. Sverdlin" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>