module support · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• M Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• M Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>
• M Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• R Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/kmod.h
• F include/linux/module*.h
• F kernel/module/
• F lib/test_kmod.c
• F lib/tests/module/
• F rust/kernel/module*.rs
• F rust/macros/module.rs
• F scripts/module*
• F tools/testing/selftests/kmod/
• F tools/testing/selftests/module/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH bpf-next v4 00/12] bpf: make the vmlinux BTF an on-demand loadable module (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=m) to save ~5.4 MB memory
  2026-10-01 22:54 · 2 replies in 7d · Jay Wang <hidden>

Recent patches

Most-recent 4 patches in this subsystem on linux-input, ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [PATCH bpf-next v4 09/12] bpf, trace, net: prepare CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF checks for a tristate
  2026-10-01 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH bpf-next v4 04/12] bpf: take the vmlinux BTF from the btf_vmlinux module
  2026-10-01 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• STALE168d [PATCH 17/61] module: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE168d [PATCH 21/61] lib/test: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <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.

• STALE168d [PATCH 21/61] lib/test: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>