sfc network driver · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/devlink/sfc.rst
• F drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [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>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 0/6] net: fix typos and repeated words in comments
  2026-09-07 04:47 · 2 replies in 7d · Hemanth Selam <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
  6 attestations (6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-02

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH 01/13 net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-09-10 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 4/6] net: sfc: fix repeated word 'the' in comment
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 1/6] net: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC PATCH] sfc: log active datapath firmware variant on ef10/x4
  2026-09-03 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 net-next 09/15] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-09-02 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 net-next 08/15] ipv4: Replace &arp_tbl with arp_table(net).
  2026-09-02 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 net-next 09/15] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-09-01 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 net-next 08/15] ipv4: Replace &arp_tbl with arp_table(net).
  2026-09-01 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH] treewide: fix spelling of "overridden"
  2026-08-26 · Linlin Yang <hidden>
• COOLING13d [RFC 2/2] sfc: add multipf support
  2026-08-21 · <hidden>
• COLD25d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 net-next 09/15] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-08-13 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD25d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 net-next 08/15] ipv4: Replace &arp_tbl with arp_table(net).
  2026-08-13 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations for dev->num_tc
  2026-08-12 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: prevent torn reads in netdev_tc_txq
  2026-08-12 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COLD29d [PATCH v3 net-next 08/15] ipv4: Replace &arp_tbl with arp_table(net).
  2026-08-11 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD29d [PATCH v3 net-next 09/15] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-08-11 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD33d [PATCH v2 net-next 08/13] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-08-07 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD33d [PATCH v2 net-next 07/13] ipv4: Replace &arp_tbl with arp_table(net).
  2026-08-07 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD36d [PATCH v1 net-next 08/11] ipv6: Replace &nd_tbl with nd_table(net).
  2026-08-06 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD36d [PATCH v1 net-next 07/11] ipv4: Replace &arp_tbl with arp_table(net).
  2026-08-06 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• COLD55d [PATCH v2] PCI: Move pci_dev->is_busmaster into priv_flags
  2026-07-14 · Maurice Hieronymus <hidden>
• COLD60d [PATCH 01/13 RFC net-next] net: ipv4: introduce CONFIG_IPV4 to decouple the IPv4 stack
  2026-07-12 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• COLD58d [PATCH 1/2] PCI: Replace pci_dev->is_busmaster with accessors
  2026-07-11 · Maurice Hieronymus <hidden>
• COLD50d 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>
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH net-next v8 1/9] net: Use helpers to get/set UDP len tree-wide
  2026-07-06 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• STALE65d [PATCH 4/4] sfc: use kmalloc() to allocate logging buffer
  2026-07-01 · "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE65d [PATCH 3/4] sfc/siena: use kmalloc() to allocate logging buffer
  2026-07-01 · "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 14 (11M) [PATCH net 5/7] sfc: Initialize cxl dpa
  2026-07-01 · <hidden>
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH net 7/7] sfc: support pio mapping based on cxl
  2026-07-01 · <hidden>
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH net 6/7] sfc: obtain and map cxl range using devm_cxl_probe_mem
  2026-07-01 · <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.

• STALE163d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v2] sfc: add transmit timestamping support
  2026-03-30 · Izabela Bakollari <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE101d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [net-next] [v3] net: sfc: avoid format string warning
  2026-06-02 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE80d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH net v2] sfc: Use acquire/release for irq_soft_enabled
  2026-06-18 · Gui-Dong Han <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.

• STALE163d [PATCH 05/10 net-next] drivers: net: drop ipv6_stub usage and use direct function calls
  2026-03-09 · Fernando Fernandez Mancera <hidden>
• STALE144d [PATCH net-next v3 04/12] net: Use helpers to get/set UDP len tree-wide
  2026-04-10 · Alice Mikityanska <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx: User strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_netdev: User strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/siena/efx: Use strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/efx: User strscpy() to copy device name
  2026-06-06 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ethtool_common: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays
  2026-06-08 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next] drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/siena/ethtool_common: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays
  2026-06-08 · <hidden>
• STALE73d [PATCH net-next 6/8] sfc/siena: use kmalloc() to allocate logging buffer
  2026-06-30 · "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
• STALE73d [PATCH net-next 7/8] sfc: use kmalloc() to allocate logging buffer
  2026-06-30 · "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>