firmware loader (request_firmware) · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• M Russ Weight <russ.weight@linux.dev>
• M Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/firmware_class/
• F drivers/base/firmware_loader/
• F rust/kernel/firmware.rs
• F include/linux/firmware.h

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM3d [PATCH v7 0/4] Input: Add support for TouchNetix aXiom touchscreen
  2026-07-02 22:32 · 1 reply in 7d · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v6 0/4] Input: Add support for TouchNetix aXiom touchscreen
  2026-07-02 22:29 · 1 reply in 7d · Marco Felsch <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Russ Weight <russ.weight@linux.dev>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-02
• Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-02

Recent patches

Most-recent 24 patches in this subsystem on linux-input, ordered by date desc.

• WARM3d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v7 1/4] firmware_loader: expand firmware error codes with up-to-date error
  2026-07-02 · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v6 1/4] firmware_loader: expand firmware error codes with up-to-date error
  2026-07-02 · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• STALE108d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v6 1/4] firmware_loader: expand firmware error codes with up-to-date error
  2026-03-03 · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• STALE128d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 1/4] firmware_loader: expand firmware error codes with up-to-date error
  2026-01-11 · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• STALE183d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v4 1/4] firmware_loader: expand firmware error codes with up-to-date error
  2026-01-06 · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• STALE184d [PATCH v3 1/4] firmware_loader: expand firmware error codes with up-to-date error
  2025-08-21 · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• STALE377d [PATCH v2 1/4] firmware_loader: expand firmware error codes with skip error
  2025-05-28 · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• STALE584d [PATCH 1/5] firmware_loader: expand firmware error codes with skip error
  2024-11-19 · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• STALE584d [PATCH 2/5] firmware_loader: add support to handle FW_UPLOAD_ERR_SKIP
  2024-11-19 · Marco Felsch <hidden>
• STALE2302d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v12 04/10] firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()
  2020-01-15 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2302d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v12 03/10] firmware: Rename FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK to FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK_SYSFS
  2020-01-15 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2361d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v11 04/10] firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()
  2020-01-11 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2361d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v11 03/10] firmware: Rename FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK to FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK_SYSFS
  2020-01-11 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2372d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v10 04/10] firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()
  2019-12-10 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2372d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v10 03/10] firmware: Rename FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK to FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK_SYSFS
  2019-12-10 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2408d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v9 04/10] firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()
  2019-12-05 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2408d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v9 03/10] firmware: Rename FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK to FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK_SYSFS
  2019-12-05 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2424d [PATCH v8 4/8] firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()
  2019-11-15 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2424d [PATCH v8 3/8] firmware: Rename FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK to FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK_SYSFS
  2019-11-15 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2466d [RESEND TRIVIAL 1/3] treewide: drivers: Fix Kconfig indentation
  2019-10-04 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
• STALE2428d [PATCH v7 4/8] firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()
  2019-10-04 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2428d [PATCH v7 3/8] firmware: Rename FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK to FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK_SYSFS
  2019-10-04 · Hans de Goede <hidden>
• STALE2481d [PATCH trivial 1/3] treewide: drivers: Fix Kconfig indentation
  2019-09-23 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
• STALE3626d [RFC v0 3/8] firmware: Factor out firmware load helpers
  2016-07-28 · Daniel Wagner <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.

• STALE183d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v4 1/4] firmware_loader: expand firmware error codes with up-to-date error
  2026-01-06 · Marco Felsch <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE128d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v5 1/4] firmware_loader: expand firmware error codes with up-to-date error
  2026-01-11 · Marco Felsch <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE108d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v6 1/4] firmware_loader: expand firmware error codes with up-to-date error
  2026-03-03 · Marco Felsch <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by