printk · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• R Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• R John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• R Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/printk-basics.rst
• F include/linux/printk.h
• F kernel/printk/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD28d [PATCH v4 2/6] treewide: Replace memcpy(..., current->comm) with copy_task_comm()
  2026-07-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COLD28d [PATCH v4 1/6] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-07-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE62d [PATCH v3 3/7] treewide: Replace memcpy(..., current->comm) with copy_task_comm()
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE62d [PATCH v3 2/7] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE77d [PATCH v2 3/6] treewide: Replace memcpy(..., current->comm) with strscpy()
  2026-05-24 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE77d [PATCH v2 2/6] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-05-24 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE86d [PATCH 3/6] string: Introduce strtostr() for safe and performance string copies
  2026-05-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE86d [PATCH 2/6] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-05-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE1683d [PATCH v18 1/4] printk: Move back proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin() to sysctl.c
  2022-01-04 · Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
• STALE2501d [PATCH -next] treewide: remove unused argument in lock_release()
  2019-09-19 · Qian Cai <hidden>
• STALE2853d [PATCH 1/3] printk: Introduce per-console loglevel setting
  2017-09-29 · Calvin Owens <hidden>
• STALE2853d [PATCH 2/3] printk: Add /sys/consoles/ interface
  2017-09-29 · Calvin Owens <hidden>
• STALE2853d [PATCH 3/3] printk: Add ability to set loglevel via "console=" cmdline
  2017-09-29 · Calvin Owens <hidden>
• STALE3821d [PATCH v6 1/8] printk: extract kmsg-related routines from printk.c to kmsg.c
  2016-02-24 · Kazimierz Krosman <hidden>
• STALE3821d [PATCH v6 3/8] kmsg: introduce additional kmsg devices support
  2016-02-24 · Kazimierz Krosman <hidden>
• STALE3821d [PATCH v6 7/8] kmsg: add ioctl for kmsg* devices operating on buffers
  2016-02-24 · Kazimierz Krosman <hidden>
• STALE3821d [PATCH v6 6/8] kmsg: add ioctl for adding and deleting kmsg* devices
  2016-02-24 · Kazimierz Krosman <hidden>
• STALE3821d [PATCH v6 5/8] kmsg: add function for adding and deleting additional buffers
  2016-02-24 · Kazimierz Krosman <hidden>
• STALE3821d [PATCH v6 2/8] printk: add one function for storing log in proper format
  2016-02-24 · Kazimierz Krosman <hidden>
• STALE3821d [PATCH v6 4/8] kmsg: add additional buffers support to memory class
  2016-02-24 · Kazimierz Krosman <hidden>
• STALE3823d [RFC v5 1/8] printk: extract kmsg-related routines from printk.c to kmsg.c
  2015-10-27 · Paul Osmialowski <hidden>
• STALE3823d [RFC v5 3/8] kmsg: introduce additional kmsg devices support
  2015-10-27 · Paul Osmialowski <hidden>
• STALE3823d [RFC v5 5/8] kmsg: add function for adding and deleting additional buffers
  2015-10-27 · Paul Osmialowski <hidden>
• STALE3823d [RFC v5 7/8] kmsg: add ioctl for kmsg* devices operating on buffers
  2015-10-27 · Paul Osmialowski <hidden>
• STALE3823d [RFC v5 6/8] kmsg: add ioctl for adding and deleting kmsg* devices
  2015-10-27 · Paul Osmialowski <hidden>
• STALE3823d [RFC v5 2/8] printk: add one function for storing log in proper format
  2015-10-27 · Paul Osmialowski <hidden>
• STALE3823d [RFC v5 4/8] kmsg: add additional buffers support to memory class
  2015-10-27 · Paul Osmialowski <hidden>
• STALE3951d [RFC v4 1/9] printk: extract kmsg-related routines from printk.c to kmsg.c
  2015-10-19 · Paul Osmialowski <hidden>
• STALE3951d [RFC v4 2/9] printk: add one function for storing log in proper format
  2015-10-19 · Paul Osmialowski <hidden>
• STALE3951d [RFC v4 4/9] kmsg: add additional buffers support to memory class
  2015-10-19 · Paul Osmialowski <hidden>

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.

• STALE62d [PATCH v3 2/7] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>