vsprintf · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• M Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• R Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• R Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
• R Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
• F lib/tests/printf_kunit.c
• F lib/tests/scanf_kunit.c
• F lib/vsprintf.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD58d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v5 5/6] vsprintf: Revert "add simple_strntoul"
  2026-03-31 · David Disseldorp <hidden>
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v4 5/6] vsprintf: Revert "add simple_strntoul"
  2026-03-29 · David Disseldorp <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH v3 5/6] vsprintf: Revert "add simple_strntoul"
  2026-03-23 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE75d [PATCH v2 7/8] vsprintf: Revert "add simple_strntoul"
  2026-01-21 · David Disseldorp <hidden>
• STALE130d [PATCH v1 3/4] vsprintf: Revert "add simple_strntoul"
  2026-01-19 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE432d [RFC PATCH V3 36/43] rv64ilp32_abi: printf: Use BITS_PER_LONG instead of CONFIG_64BIT
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• STALE458d LANDED [PATCH v4 3/8] vsprintf: add simple_strntoul
  2025-03-04 · David Disseldorp <hidden>
• STALE557d [PATCH v3 3/9] vsprintf: add simple_strntoul
  2024-11-07 · David Disseldorp <hidden>
• STALE577d [PATCH v2 3/9] vsprintf: add simple_strntoul
  2024-11-04 · David Disseldorp <hidden>
• STALE599d [RFC PATCH 1/6] vsprintf: add simple_strntoul
  2024-10-15 · David Disseldorp <hidden>
• STALE765d [PATCH 2/8] wrapper for access to ->bd_partno
  2024-05-03 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE765d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 1/8] Use bdev_is_paritition() instead of open-coding it
  2024-05-03 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE765d [PATCH 2/8] wrapper for access to ->bd_partno
  2024-04-28 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE765d [PATCH 1/8] Use bdev_is_paritition() instead of open-coding it
  2024-04-28 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE751d Re: [PATCH vfs.all 22/26] block: stash a bdev_file to read/write raw blcok_device
  2024-04-12 · Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
• STALE968d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v10 14/27] vsprintf: add new `%pA` format specifier
  2022-09-27 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1343d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v9 14/27] vsprintf: add new `%pA` format specifier
  2022-08-05 · Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
• STALE1453d [PATCH 1/5] kallsyms: pass buffer size in sprint_* APIs
  2022-05-20 · Maninder Singh <hidden>
• STALE1700d [PATCH v7 3/5] lib/vsprintf.c: make '%pD' print the full path of file
  2021-07-15 · Jia He <hidden>
• STALE1788d [PATCH v2 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: make '%pD' print the full path of file
  2021-06-23 · Jia He <hidden>
• STALE1808d [PATCH v5 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: make '%pD' print the full path of file
  2021-06-22 · Jia He <hidden>
• STALE1426d [PATCH RFCv4 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: make '%pD' print full path for file
  2021-06-15 · Jia He <hidden>
• STALE1817d [PATCH RFCv3 2/3] lib/vsprintf.c: make %pD print full path for file
  2021-06-11 · Jia He <hidden>
• STALE1796d [PATCH RFC 2/3] lib/vsprintf.c: make %pD print full path for file
  2021-05-08 · Jia He <hidden>
• STALE2236d [PATCH 13/15] print_integer, printf: rewrite num_to_str() via print_integer()
  2020-04-20 · Alexey Dobriyan <hidden>
• STALE2236d [PATCH 14/15] print_integer, printf: rewrite the rest of lib/vsprintf.c via print_integer()
  2020-04-20 · Alexey Dobriyan <hidden>
• STALE2525d [PATCH 16/39] docs: admin-guide: move sysctl directory to it
  2019-06-28 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE2524d [PATCH v1 18/22] docs: admin-guide: move sysctl directory to it
  2019-06-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE3000d rfc: remove print_vma_addr ? (was Re: [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures)
  2018-03-15 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE3036d [PATCH 1/4 v2] proc: add seq_put_decimal_ull_width to speed up /proc/pid/smaps
  2018-02-12 · Andrei Vagin <hidden>

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.

• STALE130d [PATCH v1 3/4] vsprintf: Revert "add simple_strntoul"
  2026-01-19 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE75d [PATCH v2 7/8] vsprintf: Revert "add simple_strntoul"
  2026-01-21 · David Disseldorp <hidden>