block layer · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
• F Documentation/block/
• F block/
• F drivers/block/
• F include/linux/bio.h
• F include/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h
• F kernel/trace/blktrace.c
• F lib/sbitmap.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 28 patches in this subsystem on linux-kbuild, ordered by date desc.

• STALE175d Re: [PATCH 1/1] kbuild: Only enable -Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare for W=2
  2025-12-19 · "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
• STALE278d [PATCH v2 05/13] Documentation: blk-mq: Convert block layer docs external links
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE796d [PATCH 4/5] [v2] blktrace: convert strncpy() to strscpy_pad()
  2024-04-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE796d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH 3/5] [v2] block/partitions/ldm: convert strncpy() to strscpy()
  2024-04-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• STALE825d [WIP PATCH 05/30] build: modify uses of $(srctree) to assume trailing slash
  2024-03-04 · Elliott Mitchell <hidden>
• STALE844d [PATCH RFC 2/3] build: modify uses of $(srctree) to assume trailing slash
  2024-02-21 · Elliott Mitchell <hidden>
• STALE1221d [PATCH 01/18] block/rnbd: fix mixed module-builtin object
  2022-11-19 · Alexander Lobakin <hidden>
• STALE1664d [PATCH v2 51/63] drbd: Use struct_group() to zero algs
  2021-08-18 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1767d [PATCH 48/64] drbd: Use struct_group() to zero algs
  2021-07-27 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 4/4] block: move CONFIG_BLOCK guard to top Makefile
  2021-05-28 · Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
• STALE1894d LANDED: 12 (9M) [PATCH v6 09/18] treewide: Change list_sort to use const pointers
  2021-04-08 · Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• STALE1896d REVIEWED: 7 (4M) [PATCH v5 09/18] treewide: Change list_sort to use const pointers
  2021-04-01 · Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• STALE1901d REVIEWED: 7 (4M) [PATCH v4 09/17] treewide: Change list_sort to use const pointers
  2021-03-31 · Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• STALE1905d [PATCH v3 09/17] treewide: Change list_sort to use const pointers
  2021-03-23 · Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• STALE1914d Re: [PATCH v2 09/17] lib/list_sort: fix function type mismatches
  2021-03-18 · Nick Desaulniers <hidden>
• STALE2113d [PATCH 1/1] block io layer filters api
  2020-08-27 · Sergei Shtepa <hidden>
• STALE2432d [PATCH] [RFC, EXPERIMENTAL] allow building with --std=gnu99
  2019-10-17 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
• STALE2735d [PATCH 21/27] treewide: surround file paths in Kconfig files with double quotes
  2018-12-11 · Masahiro Yamada <hidden>
• STALE2929d Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] compiler-gcc.h: add gnu_inline to all inline declarations
  2018-06-07 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE3366d [PATCH] Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org
  2017-03-27 · SeongJae Park <hidden>
• STALE3366d [PATCH 2/5] drivers/block: Fix a dead URL to ftp.kernel.org
  2017-03-27 · SeongJae Park <hidden>
• STALE3473d [PATCH 10/10] virtio: enable endian checks for sparse builds
  2016-12-06 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE3646d [PATCH v4 3/4] Mark functions with the latent_entropy attribute
  2016-06-20 · Emese Revfy <hidden>
• STALE3652d [PATCH v3 3/4] Mark functions with the latent_entropy attribute
  2016-06-14 · Emese Revfy <hidden>
• STALE3653d [PATCH v2 2/3] Mark functions with the latent_entropy attribute
  2016-05-30 · Emese Revfy <hidden>
• STALE3667d [PATCH v1 2/3] Mark functions with the latent_entropy attribute
  2016-05-23 · Emese Revfy <hidden>
• STALE6105d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) Re: [PATCH] linux-next: 20090926 - drop autoconf.h from DRBD driver
  2009-09-27 · Stephen Rothwell <hidden>
• STALE6105d [PATCH] linux-next: 20090926 - drop autoconf.h from DRBD driver
  2009-09-26 · Kamalesh Babulal <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.

• STALE175d Re: [PATCH 1/1] kbuild: Only enable -Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare for W=2
  2025-12-19 · "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>