documentation process · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/dev-tools/
• F Documentation/maintainer/
• F Documentation/process/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD40d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.18 438/957] slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() and family
  2026-05-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.248
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.198
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE176d Re: Linux 6.6.120
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.160
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.1
  2025-12-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.17.12
  2025-12-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.62
  2025-12-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.197
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE250d [PATCH] Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer
  2025-10-22 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE246d [PATCH 5.15.y 3/3] Revert "docs/process/howto: Replace C89 with C11"
  2025-10-17 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
• STALE480d Re: Linux 5.15.179
  2025-03-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE464d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.15 446/620] kfence: allow use of a deferrable timer
  2025-03-10 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE627d Re: Linux 6.6.57
  2024-10-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE629d [PATCH 6.6 042/213] selftests: Introduce Makefile variable to list shared bash scripts
  2024-10-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.4.283
  2024-09-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE749d [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: stable-kernel-rules: remind reader about DCO
  2024-06-15 · Shung-Hsi Yu <hidden>
• STALE749d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: stable-kernel-rules: provide example of specifing target series
  2024-06-15 · Shung-Hsi Yu <hidden>
• STALE751d [PATCH 2/2] docs: stable-kernel-rules: remind reader about DCO
  2024-06-06 · Shung-Hsi Yu <hidden>
• STALE751d [PATCH 1/2] docs: stable-kernel-rules: provide example of specifying target series
  2024-06-06 · Shung-Hsi Yu <hidden>
• STALE795d LANDED [PATCH v2 2/5] docs: stable-kernel-rules: call mainline by its name and change example
  2024-04-29 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
• STALE795d LANDED [PATCH v2 5/5] docs: stable-kernel-rules: create special tag to flag 'no backporting'
  2024-04-29 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
• STALE795d LANDED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v2 1/5] docs: stable-kernel-rules: reduce redundancy
  2024-04-29 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
• STALE795d LANDED [PATCH v2 4/5] docs: stable-kernel-rules: explain use of stable@kernel.org (w/o @vger.)
  2024-04-29 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
• STALE795d LANDED [PATCH v2 3/5] docs: stable-kernel-rules: remove code-labels tags and a indention level
  2024-04-29 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
• STALE795d LANDED [PATCH] docs: stable-kernel-rules: fix typo sent->send
  2024-04-26 · Bird, Tim <hidden>
• STALE816d [PATCH v1 2/4] docs: stable-kernel-rules: mention "no semi-automatic backport"
  2024-04-11 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
• STALE816d [PATCH v1 3/4] docs: stable-kernel-rules: call mainline by its name and change example
  2024-04-11 · Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>

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.

• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.62
  2025-12-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.17.12
  2025-12-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.1
  2025-12-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.160
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE176d Re: Linux 6.6.120
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.198
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.248
  2026-01-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>