Active subsystems
86 subsystems with patch activity in the last 7 days, busiest first. Each links to a dashboard of patches, threads and reviewers.
| Subsystem | Messages, 7 days | Maintainer | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| proc filesystem | 87 | none listed | |
| kernel selftest framework | 37 | Shuah Khan et al. | |
| live update | 35 | Pasha Tatashin et al. | |
| linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit) Supported | 34 | Madhavan Srinivasan | |
| pci subsystem Supported | 27 | Bjorn Helgaas | |
| networking [general] | 26 | "David S. Miller" et al. | |
| memory management | 25 | Andrew Morton | |
| vfio driver | 24 | Alex Williamson | |
| scsi subsystem | 23 | "James E.J. Bottomley" et al. | |
| kernel nfsd, sunrpc, and lockd servers Supported | 22 | Chuck Lever et al. | |
| nfs, sunrpc, and lockd clients | 18 | Trond Myklebust et al. | |
| sound | 17 | Jaroslav Kysela et al. | |
| documentation | 13 | Jonathan Corbet | |
| vfio selftests | 12 | David Matlack | |
| scheduler | 11 | Ingo Molnar et al. | |
| proc sysctl | 11 | Kees Cook et al. | |
| pressure stall information (psi) | 10 | Johannes Weiner et al. | |
| kexec handover (kho) | 9 | Mike Rapoport et al. | |
| pnp support | 9 | "Rafael J. Wysocki" | |
| tensilica xtensa port (xtensa) | 9 | Chris Zankel et al. | |
| x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) | 8 | Thomas Gleixner et al. | |
| kdump | 7 | Andrew Morton et al. | |
| memory management - misc | 7 | Andrew Morton et al. | |
| s390 architecture Supported | 7 | Heiko Carstens et al. | |
| isapnp | 7 | Jaroslav Kysela | |
| x86 platform drivers | 7 | Hans de Goede et al. | |
| memory management - allocation profiling (alloc tag) | 6 | Suren Baghdasaryan | |
| m68k architecture | 6 | Geert Uytterhoeven | |
| risc-v architecture Supported | 5 | Paul Walmsley et al. | |
| netfilter | 5 | Pablo Neira Ayuso et al. | |
| ntfs3 filesystem Supported | 5 | Konstantin Komarov | |
| intel pro/wireless 2100, 2200bg, 2915abg network connection support | 5 | Stanislav Yakovlev | |
| toshiba acpi extras driver | 5 | Azael Avalos | |
| user-mode linux (uml) | 5 | Richard Weinberger et al. | |
| pci enhanced error handling (eeh) for powerpc Supported | 4 | Mahesh J Salgaonkar | |
| memory management - swap | 4 | Andrew Morton et al. | |
| kfifo | 4 | Stefani Seibold | |
| locking primitives | 4 | Peter Zijlstra et al. | |
| common internet file system client (cifs and smb3) Supported | 4 | Paulo Alcantara et al. | |
| opl4 driver | 4 | Clemens Ladisch | |
| scsi sg driver | 4 | Doug Gilbert | |
| sparc + ultrasparc (sparc/sparc64) | 4 | "David S. Miller" et al. | |
| arm port Odd Fixes | 4 | Russell King | |
| memblock and memory management initialization | 3 | Mike Rapoport | |
| hugetlb subsystem | 2 | Muchun Song et al. | |
| input (keyboard, mouse, joystick, touchscreen) drivers | 2 | Dmitry Torokhov | |
| kcore | 2 | Omar Sandoval | |
| ppp over l2tp | 2 | James Chapman | |
| atm | 2 | Chas Williams | |
| ipc | 2 | Andrew Morton | |
| dynamic debug | 2 | Jason Baron et al. | |
| module support | 2 | Luis Chamberlain et al. | |
| irq subsystem | 2 | Thomas Gleixner | |
| jfs filesystem Odd Fixes | 2 | Dave Kleikamp | |
| journalling layer for block devices (jbd2) | 2 | "Theodore Ts'o" et al. | |
| focusrite control protocol/scarlett2 mixer drivers (scarlett gen 2+, clarett, and vocaster) | 2 | Geoffrey D. Bennett | |
| tty layer and serial drivers Supported | 2 | Greg Kroah-Hartman et al. | |
| usb gadget/peripheral subsystem Supported | 2 | Neill Kapron | |
| usb subsystem Supported | 2 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
| via unichrome(pro)/chrome9 framebuffer driver | 2 | Florian Tobias Schandinat | |
| framebuffer layer | 2 | Helge Deller | |
| dell laptop smm driver | 2 | Pali Rohár | |
| hardware monitoring | 2 | Guenter Roeck | |
| s390 common i/o layer Supported | 2 | Vineeth Vijayan et al. | |
| nubus subsystem | 2 | Finn Thain | |
| thinkpad acpi extras driver | 2 | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh | |
| linux for power macintosh Orphan | 2 | none listed | |
| acpi Supported | 2 | "Rafael J. Wysocki" | |
| superh | 2 | Yoshinori Sato et al. | |
| srm (alpha) environment access | 2 | Jan-Benedict Glaw | |
| alpha port Odd Fixes | 2 | Richard Henderson et al. | |
| memory management - core | 2 | David Hildenbrand | |
| iommu subsystem | 1 | Joerg Roedel et al. | |
| intel iommu (vt-d) Supported | 1 | David Woodhouse et al. | |
| arm64 port (aarch64 architecture) | 1 | Catalin Marinas et al. | |
| control group (cgroup) | 1 | Tejun Heo et al. | |
| dma mapping helpers Supported | 1 | Marek Szyprowski | |
| open firmware and flattened device tree | 1 | Rob Herring et al. | |
| exec & binfmt api, elf Supported | 1 | Kees Cook | |
| printk | 1 | Petr Mladek et al. | |
| tracing | 1 | Steven Rostedt et al. | |
| high-resolution timers, timer wheel, clockevents | 1 | Anna-Maria Behnsen et al. | |
| memory management - page allocator | 1 | Vlastimil Babka et al. | |
| memory management - shared memory (shmem/tmpfs/memfd) | 1 | Hugh Dickins et al. | |
| asymmetric keys | 1 | David Howells et al. | |
| crypto api | 1 | Herbert Xu et al. |