char and misc drivers · Supported

Maintainers

• M Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
• M Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Paths

• F drivers/char/
• F drivers/misc/
• F include/linux/miscdevice.h
• F rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
• F samples/rust/rust_misc_device.rs
• X drivers/char/agp/
• X drivers/char/hw_random/
• X drivers/char/ipmi/
• X drivers/char/random.c
• X drivers/char/tpm/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [PATCH 0/6] misc: fastrpc: Add extended IOVA mapping support
  2026-08-26 13:46 · 3 replies in 7d · Vinayak Katoch <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 0/3] misc: fastrpc: fix ADSP duplicate session creation
  2026-08-26 13:26 · 2 replies in 7d · Vinayak Katoch <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d [PATCH 5/6] misc: fastrpc: Add extended context bank support
  2026-08-26 · Vinayak Katoch <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 6/6] misc: fastrpc: Add UAPI flags for extended IOVA mapping
  2026-08-26 · Vinayak Katoch <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 2/6] misc: fastrpc: Handle multi-cell reg in context bank probe
  2026-08-26 · Vinayak Katoch <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 2/3] misc: fastrpc: move ADSP duplicate session creation to the driver
  2026-08-26 · Vinayak Katoch <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 1/3] misc: fastrpc: iterate CB nodes manually instead of of_platform_populate
  2026-08-26 · Vinayak Katoch <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v3 2/3] misc: fastrpc: move ADSP duplicate session creation to the driver
  2026-08-24 · Vinayak Katoch <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH v3 1/3] misc: fastrpc: iterate CB nodes manually instead of of_platform_populate
  2026-08-24 · Vinayak Katoch <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 2/2] misc: tc9564: introduce base PCI driver
  2026-08-13 · Alex Elder <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH v2 2/2] misc: fastrpc: create duplicate sessions after all CB probing
  2026-07-08 · Vinayak Katoch <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH 40/42] misc: fastrpc: Use devm_of_reserved_mem_device_init()
  2026-07-05 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE80d [PATCH v2 1/3] misc: lis3lv02d: set default click detection thresholds
  2026-06-11 · Md Shofiqul Islam <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH net-next v2 11/14] misc: tc956x_pci: add TC956x/QPS615 support
  2026-06-05 · Alex Elder <hidden>
• STALE85d [PATCH net-next 11/12] misc: tc956x_pci: add TC956x/QPS615 support
  2026-05-01 · Alex Elder <hidden>
• STALE128d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v3 3/3] misc: Remove old APDS990x driver
  2026-04-25 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• STALE132d [PATCH v2 3/3] misc: Remove old APDS990x driver
  2026-04-19 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• STALE135d [PATCH v1 5/5] misc: apds990x: Drop IRQF_TRIGGER_LOW trigger
  2026-04-18 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• STALE135d [PATCH v1 4/5] misc: apds990x: Convert to use OF bindings
  2026-04-18 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• STALE135d [PATCH v1 3/5] misc: apds990x: Drop Vled supply
  2026-04-18 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• STALE135d [PATCH v1 2/5] misc: apds990x: Use more device managed approach in the probe
  2026-04-18 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3 3/3] misc: ti_fpc202: Support special-purpose GPIO lines with LED features
  2026-03-31 · Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
• STALE154d [PATCH v3 1/3] misc: ti_fpc202: Depend on GPIOLIB instead of selecting it
  2026-03-31 · Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
• STALE117d [PATCH v6 27/27] misc: lan966x_pci: Add drivers needed to support SFPs in Kconfig help
  2026-03-25 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE117d [PATCH v6 26/27] misc: lan966x_pci: Sort the drivers list in Kconfig help
  2026-03-25 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE117d [PATCH v6 25/27] misc: lan966x_pci: Add dtsi/dtso nodes in order to support SFPs
  2026-03-25 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v6 24/27] misc: lan966x_pci: Introduce board specific data
  2026-03-25 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v6 23/27] PCI: Add Microchip LAN9662 PCI Device ID
  2026-03-25 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v6 22/27] misc: lan966x_pci: Rename lan966x_pci.dtso to lan966x_evb_lan9662_nic.dtso
  2026-03-25 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v6 21/27] misc: lan966x_pci: Split dtso in dtsi/dtso
  2026-03-25 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE117d [PATCH v6 20/27] misc: lan966x_pci: Fix dtso nodes ordering
  2026-03-25 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE159d [PATCH RESEND v2 1/3] misc: ti_fpc202: Depend on GPIOLIB instead of selecting it
  2026-03-25 · Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.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.

• STALE186d [PATCH v2 1/3] misc: ti_fpc202: Depend on GPIOLIB instead of selecting it
  2026-02-26 · Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 3/3] misc: ti_fpc202: Support special-purpose GPIO lines with LED features
  2026-02-26 · Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
• STALE172d [PATCH v5 21/28] misc: lan966x_pci: Fix dtso nodes ordering
  2026-02-27 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE172d [PATCH v5 26/28] misc: lan966x_pci: Add dtsi/dtso nodes in order to support SFPs
  2026-02-27 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE172d [PATCH v5 27/28] misc: lan966x_pci: Sort the drivers list in Kconfig help
  2026-02-27 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE172d [PATCH v5 28/28] misc: lan966x_pci: Add drivers needed to support SFPs in Kconfig help
  2026-02-27 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE159d [PATCH RESEND v2 3/3] misc: ti_fpc202: Support special-purpose GPIO lines with LED features
  2026-03-25 · Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
• STALE159d [PATCH RESEND v2 1/3] misc: ti_fpc202: Depend on GPIOLIB instead of selecting it
  2026-03-25 · Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
• STALE117d [PATCH v6 25/27] misc: lan966x_pci: Add dtsi/dtso nodes in order to support SFPs
  2026-03-25 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• STALE117d [PATCH v6 26/27] misc: lan966x_pci: Sort the drivers list in Kconfig help
  2026-03-25 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>