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)

• Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-06
• Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-06

Recent patches

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

• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v10 06/10] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-08-06 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v10 05/10] block: partitions: of: Attach partition fwnode to the block device
  2026-08-06 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v9 06/10] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-30 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v9 05/10] block: partitions: of: Attach partition fwnode to the block device
  2026-07-30 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-03 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-01 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD44d [PATCH v6 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD44d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD60d [PATCH v5 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-12 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD60d [PATCH v5 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-12 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE63d [PATCH v4 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-09 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE66d [PATCH v3 4/7] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-08 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE92d [PATCH v2 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-05-07 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE100d [PATCH 3/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-04-28 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE308d [PATCH RESEND 46/62] init: edit docs for initramfs-related configs
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE308d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE308d [PATCH RESEND 19/62] init: remove mentions of "ramdisk=" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE308d [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE308d [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE337d [PATCH v2 05/13] Documentation: blk-mq: Convert block layer docs external links
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE345d [PATCH 05/14] Documentation: blk-mq: Convert block layer docs external links
  2025-08-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE405d REVIEWED: 31 (31M) [PATCH v13 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE405d REVIEWED: 31 (31M) [PATCH v13 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types
  2025-07-01 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE409d [PATCH v12 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE409d [PATCH v12 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types
  2025-06-19 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE438d [PATCH v11 4/5] rust: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE438d [PATCH v11 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types
  2025-05-30 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE441d [PATCH v10 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types
  2025-05-24 · Tamir Duberstein <hidden>
• STALE606d [PATCH v5 01/16] rust: pass module name to `Module::init`
  2024-12-10 · Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
• STALE611d [PATCH v4 01/13] rust: pass module name to `Module::init`
  2024-12-05 · Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>

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.

• COLD44d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD43d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-01 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com> · 1 Reviewed-by

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.

• STALE100d [PATCH 3/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-04-28 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>