char and misc drivers · Supported

Maintainers

• M Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
• M Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Paths

• F drivers/char/
• F drivers/misc/
• F include/linux/miscdevice.h
• F rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
• F samples/rust/rust_misc_device.rs
• X drivers/char/agp/
• X drivers/char/hw_random/
• X drivers/char/ipmi/
• X drivers/char/random.c
• X drivers/char/tpm/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• [RFC PATCH v1 5/9] uaccess: Switch to copy_{to/from}_user_partial() when relevant
  2026-04-27 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 06/10] sysfs: treewide: constify attribute callback of bin_attribute::mmap()
  2024-11-03 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• [PATCH] tty: virtio: drop virtio_cons_early_init()
  2023-11-30 · "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
• [RFC DO NOT MERGE] treewide: use __xchg in most obvious places
  2023-01-10 · Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>
• [PATCH mm-unstable v1 19/20] habanalabs: remove FOLL_FORCE usage
  2022-11-16 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [PATCH 21/30] panic: Introduce the panic pre-reboot notifier list
  2022-04-27 · "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
• [PATCH 19/30] panic: Add the panic hypervisor notifier list
  2022-04-27 · "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
• [PATCH 05/30] misc/pvpanic: Convert regular spinlock into trylock on panic path
  2022-04-27 · "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
• [PATCH v5 05/10] serial: termbits: ADDRB to indicate 9th bit addressing mode
  2022-04-26 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• [PATCH v4 08/13] serial: termbits: ADDRB to indicate 9th bit addressing mode
  2022-04-25 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• [PATCH v3 07/12] serial: termbits: ADDRB to indicate 9th bit addressing mode
  2022-04-11 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• [PATCH v2 07/12] serial: termbits: ADDRB to indicate 9th bit addressing mode
  2022-04-04 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• [PATCH][next] treewide: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members
  2022-02-15 · "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v3 1/1] kernel.h: Split out panic and oops helpers
  2021-05-11 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• [PATCH v2 1/1] kernel.h: Split out panic and oops helpers
  2021-04-09 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• [PATCH v1 1/3] drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good
  2021-03-24 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 02/12] mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h
  2020-05-14 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 01/12] mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included
  2020-05-14 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 02/12] mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h
  2020-05-12 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 01/12] mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included
  2020-05-12 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 2/2] rtc/alpha: remove legacy rtc driver
  2020-02-26 · Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
• [PATCH 2/2] rtc/alpha: remove legacy rtc driver
  2019-10-23 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
• [RESEND TRIVIAL 1/3] treewide: drivers: Fix Kconfig indentation
  2019-10-04 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
• Re: [PATCH v6] numa: make node_to_cpumask_map() NUMA_NO_NODE aware
  2019-09-25 · Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• [PATCH trivial 1/3] treewide: drivers: Fix Kconfig indentation
  2019-09-23 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
• [PATCH V3 1/2] mm: Replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE
  2018-12-18 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• [PATCH 1/2] dma-mapping: zero memory returned from dma_alloc_*
  2018-12-14 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH V2] mm: Replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE
  2018-11-26 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• [PATCH] mm: Replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE
  2018-11-23 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• [RFC] mm: Replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE
  2018-11-12 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>