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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.6 0000/1193] 6.6.158-rc1 review
  2026-09-30 19:30 · 6 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 5.15 000/752] 5.15.222-rc1 review
  2026-09-30 18:22 · 6 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 5.10 000/595] 5.10.271-rc1 review
  2026-09-30 15:55 · 6 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.1.y] kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs
  2026-10-02 19:49 · 0 replies in 7d · Artem Dinaburg <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.12 000/877] 6.12.112-rc1 review
  2026-09-30 17:24 · 4 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.1 000/982] 6.1.189-rc1 review
  2026-09-30 16:38 · 4 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.18 000/395] 6.18.55-rc1 review
  2026-09-30 18:27 · 2 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] arm64/boot: Disable trapping of PMZR_EL0 writes to EL2" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-09-29 12:56 · 2 replies in 7d · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 7.2 000/457] 7.2.9-rc1 review
  2026-09-30 16:49 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v3 01/15] netfs: clear post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via write
  2026-09-30 03:28 · 0 replies in 7d · Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
  21 attestations (6 Acked-by, 9 Reviewed-by, 6 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-30
• Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
  7 attestations (7 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-30
• Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
  7 attestations (7 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
  7 attestations (7 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
  6 attestations (6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-30
• Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
  6 attestations (6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-30
• Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>
  6 attestations (6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-30
• Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
  6 attestations (6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-17
• Gautham R. Shenoy <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
  3 attestations (3 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-30

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.1.y] kvm: s390: Reject memory region operations for ucontrol VMs
  2026-10-02 · Artem Dinaburg <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.6 0982/1193] s390/pci/docs: Fix sriov_numvfs attribute name
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.6 0981/1193] docs: s390/pci: Improve and update PCI documentation
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.6 0801/1193] tcp: do not let tcp_rmem be set below 4096
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.6 0709/1193] Revert "hwmon: (emc1403) Drop hysteresis for low limit temperature"
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.6 0444/1193] ALSA: rawmidi: Show substream activity in info ioctl
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.6 0443/1193] ALSA: rawmidi: Expose the tied device number in info ioctl
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.18 051/395] s390/pci/docs: Fix sriov_numvfs attribute name
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.18 050/395] docs: s390/pci: Improve and update PCI documentation
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 5.15 686/752] KVM: X86: Rename gpte_is_8_bytes to has_4_byte_gpte and invert the direction
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 5.15 607/752] s390/pci/docs: Fix sriov_numvfs attribute name
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 5.15 606/752] docs: s390/pci: Improve and update PCI documentation
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 5.15 605/752] Documentation: s390: correct spelling
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 5.15 497/752] tcp: do not let tcp_rmem be set below 4096
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 5.15 260/752] tty: make tty_ldisc_ops::hangup return void
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.12 337/877] s390/pci/docs: Fix sriov_numvfs attribute name
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.12 336/877] docs: s390/pci: Improve and update PCI documentation
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.12 125/877] tcp: do not let tcp_rmem be set below 4096
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.12 001/877] Revert "hwmon: (emc1403) Drop hysteresis for low limit temperature"
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 7.2 059/457] s390/pci/docs: Fix sriov_numvfs attribute name
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 6.1 824/982] s390/pci/docs: Fix sriov_numvfs attribute name
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.1 823/982] docs: s390/pci: Improve and update PCI documentation
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.1 822/982] Documentation: s390: correct spelling
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6.1 673/982] tcp: do not let tcp_rmem be set below 4096
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 5.10 490/595] s390/pci/docs: Fix sriov_numvfs attribute name
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 5.10 489/595] docs: s390/pci: Improve and update PCI documentation
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 5.10 488/595] Documentation: s390: correct spelling
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 5.10 487/595] s390/pci: expose UID uniqueness guarantee
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 5.10 403/595] tcp: do not let tcp_rmem be set below 4096
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 5.10 207/595] tty: make tty_ldisc_ops::hangup return void
  2026-09-30 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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.

• STALE162d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH 6.18.y 6/6] arm64: errata: Work around early CME DVMSync acknowledgement
  2026-04-21 · Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [tip: sched/urgent] rseq: Reenable performance optimizations conditionally
  2026-05-01 · tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE140d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] crypto: af_alg - Remove zero-copy support from AF_ALG
  2026-05-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE140d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] crypto: af_alg - Remove zero-copy support from skcipher and aead
  2026-05-04 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE149d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [tip: sched/urgent] rseq: Reenable performance optimizations conditionally
  2026-05-05 · tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE149d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [tip: sched/urgent] rseq: Reenable performance optimizations conditionally
  2026-05-06 · tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 10 (10M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] rseq: Reenable performance optimizations conditionally" failed to apply to 7.0-stable tree
  2026-05-12 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE136d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [patch backport 7.0.y 3/3] rseq: Reenable performance optimizations conditionally
  2026-05-16 · Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-6.12] Documentation: kvm: update links in the references section of AMD Memory Encryption
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 20 (20M) [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.

• STALE201d [PATCH 6.19 125/311] ALSA: doc: usb-audio: Add doc for QUIRK_FLAG_SKIP_IFACE_SETUP
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE199d [PATCH 6.18 155/314] ALSA: doc: usb-audio: Add doc for QUIRK_FLAG_SKIP_IFACE_SETUP
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE199d [PATCH 6.18 206/314] hwmon: (aht10) Add support for dht20
  2026-03-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.19.7
  2026-03-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE202d Re: Linux 6.18.17
  2026-03-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE177d [PATCH 6.12 169/265] hwmon: (aht10) Add support for dht20
  2026-03-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.77
  2026-03-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
  2026-03-16 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-03-16 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE200d [PATCH 6.12.y 2/8] KVM: x86: Quirk initialization of feature MSRs to KVM's max configuration
  2026-03-16 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>