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• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 RESEND] Docs: changes.rst: Refine language
  2026-09-27 10:04 · 0 replies in 7d · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: use git switch to create branches
  2026-09-26 06:45 · 0 replies in 7d · Weijie Yuan <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: document the branch in git T: entries
  2026-09-25 12:00 · 0 replies in 7d · Matthias Goergens <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: document the branch in git T: entries
  2026-09-24 03:35 · 1 reply in 7d · Matthias Goergens <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
  4 attestations (4 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-27
• Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
  2 attestations (2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-25
• Nguyen Duc Thinh <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-26
• SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-09

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 RESEND] Docs: changes.rst: Refine language
  2026-09-27 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: use git switch to create branches
  2026-09-26 · Weijie Yuan <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: document the branch in git T: entries
  2026-09-25 · Matthias Goergens <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH 2/2] docs: submitting-patches: mention the branch in T: entries
  2026-09-24 · Matthias Goergens <hidden>
• COOLING10d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH 3/3] mm: kmemleak: raise min_unref_scans to 3 for verbose auto-scan
  2026-09-17 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COOLING10d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: kmemleak: fix stale statements about scanning
  2026-09-17 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COOLING10d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: kmemleak: describe the metadata pool, not the early log
  2026-09-17 · Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH] Documentation: kunit: Fix bad debugfs path
  2026-09-10 · Thomas Huth <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH] docs: process: use gender-neutral pronouns
  2026-09-09 · Ruben Sutton <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH] Documentation: deprecated.rst: add to syntax highlighting
  2026-09-09 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v4 3/3] Documentation: dev-tools: refer to user ID rather than id
  2026-09-07 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v4 2/3] Documentation: dev-tools: update container.rst with config file
  2026-09-07 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3] Docs: changes.rst: Refine language
  2026-09-05 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH] docs: KUnit: Fix cross-compiler prefix examples
  2026-09-05 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH] docs: KUnit: Fix qemu_configs path
  2026-09-05 · Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH RFC v3 2/8] Documentation: add kcov-dataflow.rst
  2026-09-02 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH RESEND v3 3/3] Documentation: dev-tools: refer to user ID rather than id
  2026-09-02 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
• COLD21d [PATCH RESEND v3 2/3] Documentation: dev-tools: update container.rst with config file
  2026-09-02 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
• COLD26d [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation: dev-tools: refer to user ID rather than id
  2026-09-02 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
• COLD26d [PATCH v3 2/3] Documentation: dev-tools: update container.rst with config file
  2026-09-02 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
• COLD25d [PATCH v2 5/5] Documentation: process: Clean up grammar and tone across multiple files
  2026-09-02 · Nguyen Duc Thinh <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v2 4/5] Documentation: process: Refine language, tone, and grammar in subsequent files
  2026-09-02 · Nguyen Duc Thinh <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v2 3/5] Documentation: process: Refine language, tone, and grammar in subsequent files
  2026-09-02 · Nguyen Duc Thinh <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v2 2/5] Documentation: process: Clean up grammar and tone in next guide files
  2026-09-02 · Nguyen Duc Thinh <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v2 1/5] Documentation: process: Clean up grammar, tone, and contractions in core files
  2026-09-02 · Nguyen Duc Thinh <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/5] Documentation: process: Clean up grammar, tone, and contractions in core files
  2026-09-02 · Nguyen Duc Thinh <hidden>
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 1/4] Docs: changes.rst: Refine language
  2026-08-31 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH] v2 Docs: changes.rst: introduce optional column
  2026-08-31 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 2/4] Docs: changes.rst, ver_linux: add tools
  2026-08-31 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation: dev-tools: update container.rst with config file
  2026-08-28 · Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>

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.

• STALE157d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 10/10] docs: maintainers_include: parse MAINTAINERS just once
  2026-04-27 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE147d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 09/10] docs: maintainers_include: fix support for O=dir
  2026-04-27 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE138d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v8 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE139d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v9 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-08 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE110d REVIEWED: 20 (20M) [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-09 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE137d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v10 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-13 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE136d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v12 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE94d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v13 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD39d 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.

• STALE209d [PATCH v3 1/2] workflow: process/changes.rst: sort and cleanup list
  2026-03-02 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE201d [PATCH v11 15/15] docs: Update KASAN and x86 memory map documentations
  2026-03-10 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE173d [PATCH 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-13 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE188d [PATCH v2 1/9] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE188d [PATCH v2 2/9] kernel/api: enable kerneldoc-based API specifications
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE188d [PATCH v2 4/9] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool
  2026-03-22 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE125d [PATCH v12 15/15] docs: Update KASAN and x86 memory map documentations
  2026-03-30 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden>
• STALE179d [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: minor updates to the security contacts
  2026-04-02 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE178d [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: minor updates to the security contacts
  2026-04-03 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>