phonet protocol · Supported

Maintainers

• M Remi Denis-Courmont <courmisch@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/phonet.rst
• F include/linux/phonet.h
• F include/net/phonet/
• F include/uapi/linux/phonet.h
• F net/phonet/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING5d [PATCH 6.6.y 00/11] bonding bugfixes for 6.6.y
  2026-07-08 09:51 · 1 reply in 7d · Wentao Guan <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
  10 attestations (10 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-17
• Rémi Denis-Courmont <hidden>
  10 attestations (10 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-17
• Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
  10 attestations (10 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-17
• Jiayuan Chen <hidden>
  2 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-08

Recent patches

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

• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH 6.6.y 10/11] bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
  2026-07-08 · Wentao Guan <hidden>
• COOLING9d Re: Linux 6.6.144
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d Re: Linux 6.12.95
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d Re: Linux 6.1.177
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.260
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.211
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD24d Re: Linux 7.0.13
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.36
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.259
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.10.y 2/3] phonet: Pass net and ifindex to phonet_address_notify().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 5.10.y 3/3] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.10.y 1/3] phonet: Pass ifindex to fill_addr().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 5.15.y 3/3] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.15.y 2/3] phonet: Pass net and ifindex to phonet_address_notify().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 5.15.y 1/3] phonet: Pass ifindex to fill_addr().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 6.1.y 3/3] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.1.y 2/3] phonet: Pass net and ifindex to phonet_address_notify().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.1.y 1/3] phonet: Pass ifindex to fill_addr().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 6.6.y 3/3] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.6.y 2/3] phonet: Pass net and ifindex to phonet_address_notify().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.6.y 1/3] phonet: Pass ifindex to fill_addr().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.12.y 2/3] phonet: Pass net and ifindex to phonet_address_notify().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 6.12.y 3/3] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.12.y 1/3] phonet: Pass ifindex to fill_addr().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD42d Re: Linux 7.0.11
  2026-06-01 · 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.

• COLD26d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree
  2026-06-15 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.12.y 1/3] phonet: Pass ifindex to fill_addr().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.12.y 2/3] phonet: Pass net and ifindex to phonet_address_notify().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 6.12.y 3/3] net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.6.y 1/3] phonet: Pass ifindex to fill_addr().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.6.y 2/3] phonet: Pass net and ifindex to phonet_address_notify().
  2026-06-17 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 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.

• STALE110d Re: Linux 6.12.78
  2026-03-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE110d Re: Linux 6.18.20
  2026-03-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE110d Re: Linux 6.19.10
  2026-03-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD51d Re: Linux 7.0.10
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.258
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.209
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD42d Re: Linux 6.1.175
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.142
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD42d Re: Linux 6.12.92
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD42d Re: Linux 6.18.34
  2026-06-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>