vsprintf · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• M Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• R Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• R Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
• R Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
• F lib/tests/printf_kunit.c
• F lib/tests/scanf_kunit.c
• F lib/vsprintf.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 13 patches in this subsystem on linux-arm-kernel, ordered by date desc.

• STALE121d Re: [RFC V2 01/14] mm: Abstract printing of pxd_val()
  2026-05-21 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• STALE359d [PATCH v4 01/11 6.1.y] minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression
  2025-10-03 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• STALE363d [PATCH v3 02/11 6.1.y] minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression
  2025-10-02 · Eliav Farber <hidden>
• STALE530d LANDED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v2 2/2] vsprintf: remove redundant and unused %pCn format specifier
  2025-03-11 · Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
• STALE569d [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: remove redundant and unused %pCn format specifier
  2025-03-07 · Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
• STALE1408d [PATCH v3 2/7] lib/vsprintf: Add support for generic FOURCCs by extending %p4cc
  2022-11-08 · Russell King (Oracle) <hidden>
• STALE1438d [PATCH 4/7] lib/vsprintf: Add support for generic FOURCCs by extending %p4cc
  2022-09-06 · Russell King (Oracle) <hidden>
• STALE2016d [RFC patch] vsprintf: Allow %pe to print non PTR_ERR %pe uses as decimal
  2021-03-24 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE2746d [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Remove support for %pF and %pf in favour of %pS and %ps
  2019-03-22 · Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
• STALE2756d Re: Unstable Kernel behavior on an ARM based board
  2019-03-05 · Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
• STALE3043d [PATCH 4/4] lib/vsprintf: Remove atomic-unsafe support for %pCr
  2018-06-01 · Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
• STALE4766d Re: [PATCH] dma: use %pa to print dma_addr_t
  2013-09-12 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/2] lib: vsprintf: optimised put_dec() function
  2011-02-26 · Denys Vlasenko <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.

• STALE121d Re: [RFC V2 01/14] mm: Abstract printing of pxd_val()
  2026-05-21 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>