kernel/linux.git/CREDITS, branch v7.0-rc7

MAINTAINERS: remove Thomas Falcon from IBM ibmvnic

2026-03-05T15:35:45+00:00

We have not seen emails or tags from Thomas's IBM address (tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com) in over 5 years. Looks like Thomas is active in perf tooling at Intel (thomas.falcon@intel.com). Subsystem IBM Power SRIOV Virtual NIC Device Driver Changes 49 / 134 (36%) Last activity: 2025-08-26 Haren Myneni : Tags 3c14917953a5 2025-08-26 00:00:00 2 Rick Lindsley : Nick Child : Author d93a6caab5d7 2025-03-25 00:00:00 14 Tags d93a6caab5d7 2025-03-25 00:00:00 16 Thomas Falcon : Top reviewers: [22]: drt@linux.ibm.com [13]: horms@kernel.org [9]: ricklind@linux.vnet.ibm.com [3]: davemarq@linux.ibm.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Thomas Falcon Move Thomas to CREDITS as the initial author of ibmvnic. Acked-by: Thomas Falcon Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-12-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

MAINTAINERS: remove Jonathan Lemon from OpenCompute PTP

2026-03-05T15:35:45+00:00

We have not seen emails or tags from Jonathan in over 5 years, and there is no recent mailing list activity. Vadim Fedorenko is active. Subsystem OPENCOMPUTE PTP CLOCK DRIVER Changes 49 / 130 (37%) Last activity: 2025-11-25 Jonathan Lemon : Vadim Fedorenko : Author d3ca2ef0c915 2025-09-19 00:00:00 5 Tags 648282e2d1e5 2025-11-25 00:00:00 20 Top reviewers: [7]: horms@kernel.org [4]: jiri@nvidia.com [3]: richardcochran@gmail.com [2]: aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Jonathan Lemon Add Jonathan to CREDITS as the initial author of ptp_ocp. Acked-by: Vadim Fedorenko Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-9-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

CREDITS: Add -next to Stephen Rothwell's entry

2026-02-22T20:11:33+00:00

Stephen retired and stepped back from -next maintainership, update his entry in CREDITS to recognise his 18 years of hard work making it what it is today and all the impact it's had on our development process. Also update to his current GnuPG key while we're here. Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell Acked-by: SeongJae Park Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2026-02-12T03:31:52+00:00

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core & protocols: - A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path. This generates better and faster code with very small or no text size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than the actual inlined helper. - Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete, also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace basis. - Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer. Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage by up to ~30%. - Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without the HBH hint. - Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is resolved out of a different interface than the one specified, aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior. - Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing a single global rate on the interface. - Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations that are safer in crash scenarios. - Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information, saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use. - Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions. - Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure. - Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line. - Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence. - Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks across different network namespaces. - Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented optimizations. - Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes back online. Driver API: - Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a DPLL device via netlink. - Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing media ports over a single MAC. - Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties, to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential signaling. - Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks. Device drivers: - Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver. - Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet controller. - Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches - Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver. - Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl(). - Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path. - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt, bng): - bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram and NVRAM defragmentation - bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5): - improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the used H/W resources - add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN - add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules - use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO, leading to 12% RX tput improvement - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new layouts - ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support - Meta (fbnic): - adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors - Ethernet virtual: - geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - Synopsys (stmmac): - some code refactoring and cleanups - RealTek (r8169): - add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP) - add dash and LTR support - Airoha: - AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support - Freescale (fec): - add XDP zero-copy support - Thunderbolt: - add get link setting support to allow bonding - Renesas: - add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC - Ethernet switches: - Maxlinear: - support R(G)MII slow rate configuration - add support for Intel GSW150 - Motorcomm (yt921x): - add DCB/QoS support - TI: - icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev framework - Ethernet PHYs: - Realtek: - enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation - simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers - Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema - CAN: - move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN metadata access more robust - CAN drivers: - rcar_canfd: - add support for FD-only mode - add support for the RZ/T2H SoC - sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling - WiFi: - implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP - additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions - better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources - initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211 - WiFi drivers: - Qualcomm/Atheros: - ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement - ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy devices and and pave the way for future device support in the same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k) - ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset - Intel: - iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support - iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn - RealTek (rtw89): - preparations for RTL8922DE support - Bluetooth: - implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY - set link_policy on incoming ACL connections - Bluetooth drivers: - btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE - btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature" * tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits) bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect(). net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect() ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 ipv6: use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 and np->final in ip6_datagram_dst_update() ipv6: use np->final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header() ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup() ...

Merge tag 'edac_updates_for_v7.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras

2026-02-11T02:14:36+00:00

Pull EDAC updates from Borislav Petkov: - Remove two drivers for obsolete hardware: i82443bxgx_edac and r82600_edac - Add support for Intel Amston Lake and Panther Lake-H SoCs to igen6_edac - The usual amount of fixes and cleanups * tag 'edac_updates_for_v7.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras: EDAC/r82600: Remove this obsolete driver EDAC/i82443bxgx: Remove driver that has been marked broken since 2007 EDAC/amd64: Avoid a -Wformat-security warning RAS/AMD/ATL: Remove an unneeded semicolon EDAC/igen6: Add more Intel Panther Lake-H SoCs support EDAC/igen6: Make masks of {MCHBAR, TOM, TOUUD, ECC_ERROR_LOG} configurable EDAC/igen6: Add two Intel Amston Lake SoCs support EDAC/i5400: Fix snprintf() limit calculation in calculate_dimm_size() EDAC/i5000: Fix snprintf() size calculation in calculate_dimm_size()

Merge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

2026-02-10T04:53:18+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is still a fair amount going on, including: - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption by generative tools - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink behind to avoid breaking scripts - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of documentation in Python code, better support for documenting variables, and lots of improvements and fixes - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example -- to the online pages in the HTML build ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such" * tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits) doc: development-process: add notice on testing tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree' docs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentation docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent docs: add parse_features module documentation docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements docs: add jobserver module documentation docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8 docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation docs: add kabi modules documentation ...

EDAC/r82600: Remove this obsolete driver

2026-01-30T12:41:32+00:00

This driver supports the Radisys 82600 embedded chipset, which was used with Pentium III-era CPUs. It is highly unlikely that it is still used. Besides its own documentation, the only information I was able to find about the R82600, after looking through many pages of Google results, was that it was used in a Nokia 2G GSM base station. The original author said: "This was after Bluesmoke (watch was out-of-tree), and was pay of the first set of in tree edac drivers (a fresh design as far as I remember). This particular driver did apparently get used by Akamai quite heavily and widely but all ancient history now. The Radisys r82600 edac driver r82600_edac.c was closely related hardware from the same era, and can probably go too (although being embedded hardware, it's possible its production lifespan was considerably longer). Tim." Mail is https://lore.kernel.org/r/01BCCA37-F6A2-458B-BFE7-99C7724CDDEA@buttersideup.com but lkml drops html mail so quoting the relevant info here too. [ bp: Massage and extend commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260130052633.13119-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com

EDAC/i82443bxgx: Remove driver that has been marked broken since 2007

2026-01-29T17:07:13+00:00

The history of this driver is pretty amusing. It was marked broken in 2007 in 28f96eeafc89 ("drivers/edac-new-i82443bxgz-mc-driver: mark as broken"). It was then fixed in 2008 in 53a2fe5804e8 ("edac: make i82443bxgx_edac coexist with intel_agp"), but the dependency on BROKEN was never removed. Given that this was never fixed in the last ~18 years, it is obvious there is no demand for this driver. Remove it and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file. Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260129082937.48740-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com

net: ethernet: neterion: s2io: remove unused driver

2026-01-29T04:08:07+00:00

The s2io driver supports Exar (formerly Neterion and S2io) PCI-X 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards. Hardware supporting PCI-X has not been manufactured in years. On x86, it was quickly replaced by PCIe. While it stuck around longer on POWER hardware, the last POWER hardware to support it was POWER7, which is not supported by ppc64le Linux distributions. The last supported mainstream ppc64 Linux distribution was RHEL 7; while it is still supported under ELS, ELS is only available for x86 and IBM Z. It is possible to use many PCI-X cards in standard PCI slots (which are still available on new motherboards), but it does not make sense to do so for 10 Gigabit Ethernet because the maximum bandwidth of standard PCI is only 1067 Mbps. It is therefore highly unlikely that this driver is still being used. Remove the driver, and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file (restoring credit for the vxge driver, which was removed in commit f05643a0f60b ("eth: remove neterion/vxge"). Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260126031352.22997-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2026-01-23T04:14:36+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.19-rc7). Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic3/hinic3_irq.c b35a6fd37a00 ("hinic3: Add adaptive IRQ coalescing with DIM") fb2bb2a1ebf7 ("hinic3: Fix netif_queue_set_napi queue_index input parameter error") https://lore.kernel.org/fc0a7fdf08789a52653e8ad05281a0a849e79206.1768915707.git.zhuyikai1@h-partners.com drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wifi7/hw.c 31707572108d ("wifi: ath12k: Fix wrong P2P device link id issue") c26f294fef2a ("wifi: ath12k: Move ieee80211_ops callback to the arch specific module") https://lore.kernel.org/20260114123751.6a208818@canb.auug.org.au Adjacent changes: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c 8b8d6ee53dfd ("wifi: ath12k: Fix scan state stuck in ABORTING after cancel_remain_on_channel") 914c890d3b90 ("wifi: ath12k: Add framework for hardware specific ieee80211_ops registration") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski