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Maintainers

• M Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
• M "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
• M Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
• M Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
• M Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/
• F Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst
• F drivers/connector/
• F drivers/net/
• F drivers/ptp/
• F drivers/s390/net/
• F include/dt-bindings/net/
• F include/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/linux/etherdevice.h
• F include/linux/ethtool_netlink.h
• F include/linux/fcdevice.h
• F include/linux/fddidevice.h
• F include/linux/if_*
• F include/linux/inetdevice.h
• F include/linux/netdev*
• F include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h
• F include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink*
• F include/uapi/linux/if_*
• F include/uapi/linux/net_shaper.h
• F include/uapi/linux/netdev*
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/bluetooth/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/
• X Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/
• X drivers/net/can/
• X drivers/net/wireless/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH RFC v7 1/5] net: account for ingress-resolved virtio net hdr state
  2026-10-29 18:53 · 0 replies in 7d · Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-10-29
• Chris Arges <hidden>
  2 attestations (1 Reported-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-10-21
• Paulos Yibelo <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-10-21
• Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-10-21
• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-10-17
• Vega <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-10-15
• Luxing Yin <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-10-15

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH RFC v7 1/5] net: account for ingress-resolved virtio net hdr state
  2026-10-29 · Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH RFC v4 5/6] virtio-net: add XDP rx timestamp metadata
  2026-10-26 · Steffen Trumtrar <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH RFC v4 6/6] tun: add rx timestamp to the vnet header
  2026-10-26 · Steffen Trumtrar <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH RFC v4 2/6] virtio-net: support receive timestamp
  2026-10-26 · Steffen Trumtrar <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH RFC v4 1/6] virtio-net: move virtio_net_common_hdr to virtio_net.h
  2026-10-26 · Steffen Trumtrar <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v6 1/5] net: account for ingress-resolved virtio net hdr state
  2026-10-23 · Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH net] virtio_net: reject stats replies for queues outside the request
  2026-10-22 · Lianjie Wang <hidden>
• COOLING8d SUPERSEDED [PATCH net v5 1/7] net: account for ingress-resolved virtio net hdr state
  2026-10-22 · Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING11d SUPERSEDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net v4 4/7] net: resolve uncommon partial checksums at ingress
  2026-10-21 · Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING11d SUPERSEDED [PATCH net v4 1/7] net: account for ingress-resolved virtio net hdr state
  2026-10-21 · Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING12d SUPERSEDED [PATCH net v3 1/8] net: account for ingress-resolved virtio net hdr state
  2026-10-19 · Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING12d LANDED [PATCH net] virtio_net: atomically disable rx mode work
  2026-10-17 · Weiming Shi <hidden>
• COLD16d SUPERSEDED [PATCH net-next v2 1/7] net: account for ingress-resolved virtio net hdr state
  2026-10-15 · Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD16d [PATCH nf v8 2/3] netfilter: nf_dup_netdev: bound asynchronous duplication
  2026-10-15 · Zihan Xi <hidden>
• COLD19d SUPERSEDED [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: account for ingress-resolved virtio net hdr state
  2026-10-13 · Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/2] virtio-net: unwind VQs when irq moderation init fails
  2026-09-30 · Jianlin Shi <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH net v6 1/2] net: validate virtio checksum start after network header
  2026-09-22 · Paulos Yibelo <hidden>
• COLD41d [PATCH RFC v3 2/2] tun: support rx-tstamp
  2026-09-21 · Steffen Trumtrar <hidden>
• COLD41d [PATCH RFC v3 1/2] virtio-net: support receive timestamp
  2026-09-21 · Steffen Trumtrar <hidden>
• COLD39d SUPERSEDED [PATCH net v5 1/2] net: validate virtio checksum start after network header
  2026-09-21 · Paulos Yibelo <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH 01/17] locking/mutex: assert static storage for DEFINE_MUTEX()
  2026-09-15 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• COLD47d [RFC RESEND 3/3] virtio_net: add rx_timeouts per-queue statistic
  2026-09-08 · Longjun Tang <hidden>
• COLD47d [RFC RESEND 2/3] virtio_net: introduce an RX queue watchdog for stuck detection
  2026-09-08 · Longjun Tang <hidden>
• COLD54d LANDED [PATCH net] selftests/drivers/net: include lib/sh/*.sh
  2026-09-07 · Hangbin Liu <hidden>
• COLD55d LANDED [PATCH v3] virtio_net: add rx-alloc-fail counter
  2026-09-03 · Longjun Tang <hidden>
• COLD60d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net-next v23 13/14] virtio_net: Add support for TCP and UDP ethtool rules
  2026-08-31 · Shahar Shitrit <hidden>
• COLD60d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net-next v23 14/14] virtio_net: Add get ethtool flow rules ops
  2026-08-31 · Shahar Shitrit <hidden>
• COLD60d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net-next v23 12/14] virtio_net: Add support for IPv6 ethtool steering
  2026-08-31 · Shahar Shitrit <hidden>
• COLD60d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net-next v23 11/14] virtio_net: Implement IPv4 ethtool flow rules
  2026-08-31 · Shahar Shitrit <hidden>
• COLD60d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net-next v23 10/14] virtio_net: Use existing classifier if possible
  2026-08-31 · Shahar Shitrit <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.

• STALE144d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] virtio_net: do not allow tunnel csum offload for non GSO packets
  2026-06-09 · Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE139d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net v3] virtio-net: fix len check in receive_big()
  2026-06-11 · Xiang Mei <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD60d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH net-next v23 07/14] virtio_net: Create a FF group for ethtool steering +13 more in this series
  2026-08-31 · Shahar Shitrit <hidden> · 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.

• STALE139d [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] virtio-net: xsk: support tx wake up +1 more in this series
  2026-06-11 · <hidden>
• STALE115d [PATCH net-next 2/3] virtio_net: initialize napi.tx_napi in virtnet_alloc_queues() +2 more in this series
  2026-06-11 · <hidden>
• STALE95d LANDED [PATCH net 3/4] Revert "vhost-net: wake queue of tun/tap after ptr_ring consume" +3 more in this series
  2026-07-28 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• STALE94d [PATCH 3/6] hv_netvsc: Remove GPADL teardown special case for old Hyper-V hosts +4 more in this series
  2026-07-30 · Michael Kelley <hidden>
• STALE66d [RFC PATCH 2/3] virtio_net: introduce an RX queue watchdog for stuck detection +2 more in this series
  2026-08-28 · Longjun Tang <hidden>
• COLD60d [PATCH net-next v23 08/14] ethtool: Introduce ethtool_flow_type_mask() +13 more in this series
  2026-08-31 · Shahar Shitrit <hidden>