module support · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• M Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• M Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>
• M Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• R Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/kmod.h
• F include/linux/module*.h
• F kernel/module/
• F lib/test_kmod.c
• F lib/tests/module/
• F rust/kernel/module*.rs
• F rust/macros/module.rs
• F scripts/module*
• F tools/testing/selftests/kmod/
• F tools/testing/selftests/module/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD21d [PATCH 6/6] module: Remove the error-injection.h include from linux/module.h
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD30d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 3/3] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH v3 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE70d LANDED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v10 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-08-11 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE70d LANDED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v10 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-08-11 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH v3] rust: block: set GenDisk block_device_operations.owner to THIS_MODULE
  2026-08-06 · Adarsh Das <hidden>
• STALE80d SUPERSEDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v9 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-07-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE80d SUPERSEDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v9 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-07-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE87d SUPERSEDED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 3/3] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE87d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE97d SUPERSEDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v8 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-07-13 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE97d SUPERSEDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v8 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-07-13 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE104d SUPERSEDED [PATCH 2/2] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE104d SUPERSEDED [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD52d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v19 01/40] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v5] rust: configfs: add procedural macro for declaring configfs attributes
  2026-06-30 · Malte Wechter <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies SUPERSEDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v7 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-27 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE117d SUPERSEDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v7 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-27 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE117d SUPERSEDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v6 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE117d SUPERSEDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v6 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE120d SUPERSEDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 9/9] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE120d SUPERSEDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 2/9] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE121d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v4 2/9] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE121d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v4 9/9] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE122d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v3 1/6] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-22 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v4] rust: configfs: add procedural macro for declaring configfs attributes
  2026-06-19 · Malte Wechter <hidden>
• STALE127d [PATCH v3] rust: add procedural macro for declaring configfs attributes
  2026-06-12 · Malte Wechter <hidden>
• STALE122d SUPERSEDED [PATCH v2 1/7] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-05-21 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH 17/61] module: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE189d [PATCH 21/61] lib/test: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• COLD52d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v19 01/40] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker) +39 more in this series
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> · 4 Tested-by
• COLD30d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 3/3] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date +2 more in this series
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> · 1 Reviewed-by