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

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Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 17 patches in this subsystem on tools, ordered by date desc.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4 11/11] kernel/api: add syscall enter/exit tracepoints
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD35d [PATCH v4 04/11] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD35d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD35d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD35d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD60d [PATCH v3 4/9] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD60d [PATCH v3 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD60d [PATCH v3 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD60d [PATCH v3 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v2 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE87d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE87d [PATCH 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE87d [PATCH 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE197d [RFC PATCH v5 04/15] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE197d [RFC PATCH v5 01/15] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE197d [RFC PATCH v5 01/15] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE197d [RFC PATCH v5 04/15] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2025-12-18 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE87d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD60d [PATCH v3 3/9] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD60d [PATCH v3 4/9] tools/kapi: add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-04-24 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD35d [PATCH v4 01/11] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD35d [PATCH v4 02/11] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COLD35d [PATCH v4 03/11] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications
  2026-05-29 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>