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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 0/6] printk: nbcon: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay
  2026-07-12 10:20 · 5 replies in 7d · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 0/4] printk: nbcon: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay
  2026-07-09 12:32 · 3 replies in 7d · Andrew Murray <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-12

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 5/6] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 4/6] printk: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 3/6] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 2/6] printk: add bounds checking to boot_delay
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 1/6] printk: sysctl: use unsigned int for printk_delay
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• WARM3d Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] printk: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay
  2026-07-09 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• WARM3d Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-07-08 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• WARM3d Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-07-08 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 3/4] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-06-30 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 2/4] printk: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay
  2026-06-30 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 1/4] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-06-30 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• COLD25d Re: [PATCH RFC 3/4] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-06-08 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• COLD25d [PATCH RFC 2/4] printk: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay
  2026-05-31 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH RFC 1/4] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-05-31 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH RFC 3/4] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-05-31 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• COLD59d [PATCH RFC] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
  2026-05-05 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE142d Re: [PATCH 06/19] printk: Introduce register_console_force
  2026-01-14 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE142d [PATCH 19/19] printk: Remove CON_ENABLED flag
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE142d [PATCH 06/19] printk: Introduce register_console_force
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE142d [PATCH 05/19] printk: Add more context to suspend/resume functions
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE142d [PATCH 04/19] printk: Reintroduce consoles_suspended global state
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE142d [PATCH 03/19] printk: Drop flags argument from console_is_usable
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE142d [PATCH 02/19] printk: Introduce console_is_nbcon
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE142d [PATCH 01/19] printk/nbcon: Use an enum to specify the required callback in console_is_usable()
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE220d Re: [PATCH] printk/nbcon: Restore IRQ in atomic flush after each emitted record
  2025-12-03 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• STALE222d Re: CSD lockup during kexec due to unbounded busy-wait in pl011_console_write_atomic (arm64)
  2025-11-28 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE171d [PATCH 21/26] printk: Register information into meminspect
  2025-11-19 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE290d [RFC][PATCH v3 12/16] printk: Register information into Kmemdump
  2025-09-12 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE290d [RFC][PATCH v3 08/16] init/version: Add banner_len to save banner length
  2025-09-12 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE314d [RFC][PATCH v2 20/29] printk: Register information into Kmemdump
  2025-07-24 · Eugen Hristev <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.

• STALE142d [PATCH 19/19] printk: Remove CON_ENABLED flag
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE142d Re: [PATCH 06/19] printk: Introduce register_console_force
  2026-01-14 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>