module support · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• M Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• M Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>
• M Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• R Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/kmod.h
• F include/linux/module*.h
• F kernel/module/
• F lib/test_kmod.c
• F lib/tests/module/
• F rust/kernel/module_param.rs
• F rust/macros/module.rs
• F scripts/module*
• F tools/testing/selftests/kmod/
• F tools/testing/selftests/module/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-11
• Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-11
• Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-11
• Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-11
• Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-11
• Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-21

Recent patches

Most-recent 23 patches in this subsystem on driver-core, ordered by date desc.

• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v10 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-08-11 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v10 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-08-11 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 37 (37M) [PATCH v9 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-07-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 37 (37M) [PATCH v9 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-07-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 3/3] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD21d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 25 (25M) [PATCH v8 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-07-13 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 25 (25M) [PATCH v8 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-07-13 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD38d [PATCH 2/2] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD38d [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 08/15] device core: Initial device trust infrastructure
  2026-07-05 · Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 25 (25M) [PATCH v7 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-27 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 25 (25M) [PATCH v7 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-27 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD51d REVIEWED: 25 (25M) [PATCH v6 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD51d REVIEWED: 25 (25M) [PATCH v6 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD54d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v5 9/9] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD54d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v5 2/9] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH v4 2/9] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH v4 9/9] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD56d [PATCH v3 1/6] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-22 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD57d [PATCH v2 1/7] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-05-21 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE89d [PATCH 1/8] rust: module: add `MODULE_PTR` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-05-19 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE110d Re: [PATCH] drivers: base: Set mod->async_probe_requested if needed
  2026-04-28 · Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.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.

• COLD54d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v5 2/9] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD54d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v5 9/9] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 3/3] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> · 1 Reviewed-by