block layer · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
• F Documentation/block/
• F block/
• F drivers/block/
• F include/linux/bio.h
• F include/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h
• F kernel/trace/blktrace.c
• F lib/sbitmap.c

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-05-07

Recent patches

Most-recent 11 patches in this subsystem on linux-bluetooth, ordered by date desc.

• COLD20d [PATCH v2 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-05-07 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD28d [PATCH 3/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-04-28 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD48d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE532d [PATCH v3 12/19] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2024-12-10 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE540d [PATCH v2 13/21] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2024-11-15 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE546d [PATCH 13/22] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2024-11-15 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE768d [PATCH v2 06/25] virtio_blk: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-31 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• STALE794d [PATCH 03/22] virtio_blk: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-27 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• STALE1257d [PATCH] treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()
  2022-12-20 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1292d Re: [PATCH v4a 00/38] timers: Use timer_shutdown*() before freeing timers
  2022-11-05 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1689d LANDED [PATCH RFC] virtio: wrap config->reset calls
  2021-10-13 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

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.

• COLD28d [PATCH 3/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-04-28 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>