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

Recent patches

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

• COOLING14d [PATCH RFC] printk: remove BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
  2026-05-05 · Andrew Murray <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH v2] Documentation: printk: Add section about avoiding lockups
  2026-03-17 · h3288824963 <hidden>
• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 20/25] printk: Register information into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE79d [PATCH] Documentation: printk: warn about lockups from excessive use
  2026-03-05 · hujinfei <hidden>
• STALE76d [PATCH] Documentation: printk: warn about lockups from excessive use
  2026-03-04 · hujinfei <hidden>
• STALE121d [PATCH v5 33/36] printk: Move locking annotation to printk.c
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE159d [PATCH v4 32/35] printk: Move locking annotation to printk.c
  2025-11-20 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE126d [PATCH 21/26] printk: Register information into meminspect
  2025-11-19 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE195d [PATCH v3 32/35] printk: Move locking annotation to printk.c
  2025-09-18 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE244d [RFC][PATCH v3 12/16] printk: Register information into Kmemdump
  2025-09-12 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE244d [RFC][PATCH v3 08/16] init/version: Add banner_len to save banner length
  2025-09-12 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE345d [RFC][PATCH 07/14] printk: add kmsg_kmemdump_register
  2025-04-22 · Eugen Hristev <hidden>
• STALE435d [PATCH v3 2/3] hexdump: Allow skipping identical lines
  2025-03-19 · Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
• STALE435d [PATCH v3 1/3] hexdump: Simplify print_hex_dump()
  2025-03-19 · Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
• STALE495d [PATCH v2 2/2] hexdump: Allow skipping identical lines
  2025-01-10 · Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
• STALE495d [PATCH v2 1/2] hexdump: Convert the ascii boolean into a flag variable
  2025-01-10 · Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
• STALE520d [PATCH 2/2] hexdump: Allow skipping identical lines
  2024-08-26 · Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
• STALE520d [PATCH 1/2] hexdump: Convert the ascii boolean into a flag variable
  2024-08-26 · Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
• STALE693d LANDED [PATCH 1/3] printk: Add match_devname_and_update_preferred_console()
  2024-07-03 · Tony Lindgren <hidden>
• STALE695d Re: [PATCH printk v2 00/18] add threaded printing + the rest
  2024-06-05 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• STALE695d [PATCH printk v2 16/18] printk: Provide threadprintk boot argument
  2024-06-03 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• STALE723d LANDED [PATCH v7 3/7] printk: Flag register_console() if console is set on command line
  2024-03-27 · Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
• STALE723d LANDED [PATCH v7 2/7] printk: Don't try to parse DEVNAME:0.0 console options
  2024-03-27 · Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
• STALE723d LANDED [PATCH v7 1/7] printk: Save console options for add_preferred_console_match()
  2024-03-27 · Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
• STALE735d LANDED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 1/2] printk: Add function to replay kernel log on consoles
  2024-03-13 · Sreenath Vijayan <hidden>
• STALE812d [PATCH v5 1/2] printk: Add function to replay kernel log on consoles
  2024-03-07 · Sreenath Vijayan <hidden>
• STALE822d [PATCH v4 1/2] printk: Add function to dump printk buffer directly to consoles
  2024-02-01 · Sreenath Vijayan <hidden>
• STALE855d [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: Replace deprecated 'functions' by 'identifiers'
  2024-01-22 · Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
• STALE859d [PATCH v3 1/2] printk: Add function to dump printk buffer directly to consoles
  2024-01-17 · Sreenath Vijayan <hidden>
• STALE1767d LANDED Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the printk tree
  2021-07-25 · Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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.

• STALE159d [PATCH v4 32/35] printk: Move locking annotation to printk.c
  2025-11-20 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>