printk · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• R Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• R John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• R Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/printk-basics.rst
• F include/linux/printk.h
• F kernel/printk/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-23

Recent patches

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

• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v11 35/38] dyndbg: Ignore additional arguments from pr_fmt
  2026-09-23 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v10 35/38] dyndbg: Ignore additional arguments from pr_fmt
  2026-09-16 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
• STALE82d [PATCH v3 5/6] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE82d [PATCH v3 4/6] printk: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE82d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 3/6] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE82d [PATCH v3 2/6] printk: add bounds checking to boot_delay
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE82d [PATCH v3 1/6] printk: sysctl: use unsigned int for printk_delay
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH printk 3/3] printk: Support setting console sync mode via console=
  2026-07-10 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• STALE89d Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] printk: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay
  2026-07-09 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE89d Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-07-08 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• STALE89d Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-07-08 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v3 21/26] printk: Register information into meminspect
  2026-07-08 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE89d [PATCH v2 3/4] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-06-30 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE89d [PATCH v2 2/4] printk: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay
  2026-06-30 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE89d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 1/4] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-06-30 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE111d Re: [PATCH RFC 3/4] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-06-08 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE111d [PATCH RFC 2/4] printk: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay
  2026-05-31 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE111d [PATCH RFC 1/4] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-05-31 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE111d [PATCH RFC 3/4] printk: nbcon: move printk_delay to console emiting code
  2026-05-31 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE145d [PATCH RFC] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
  2026-05-05 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH v2] Documentation: printk: Add section about avoiding lockups
  2026-03-17 · h3288824963 <hidden>
• STALE138d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 20/25] printk: Register information into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE210d [PATCH] Documentation: printk: warn about lockups from excessive use
  2026-03-05 · hujinfei <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH] Documentation: printk: warn about lockups from excessive use
  2026-03-04 · hujinfei <hidden>
• STALE253d [PATCH v5 33/36] printk: Move locking annotation to printk.c
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE291d [PATCH v4 32/35] printk: Move locking annotation to printk.c
  2025-11-20 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE258d [PATCH 21/26] printk: Register information into meminspect
  2025-11-19 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE326d [PATCH v3 32/35] printk: Move locking annotation to printk.c
  2025-09-18 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE376d [RFC][PATCH v3 12/16] printk: Register information into Kmemdump
  2025-09-12 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE376d [RFC][PATCH v3 08/16] init/version: Add banner_len to save banner length
  2025-09-12 · Eugen Hristev <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.

• STALE89d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 1/4] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-06-30 · Andrew Murray <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE82d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 3/6] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY config option
  2026-07-12 · Andrew Murray <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v10 35/38] dyndbg: Ignore additional arguments from pr_fmt
  2026-09-16 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 1 Reviewed-by