Active subsystems
75 subsystems with patch activity in the last 7 days, busiest first. Each links to a dashboard of patches, threads and reviewers.
| Subsystem | Messages, 7 days | Maintainer | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| proc filesystem | 55 | none listed | |
| linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit) Supported | 26 | Madhavan Srinivasan | |
| networking [general] | 16 | "David S. Miller" et al. | |
| scsi subsystem | 16 | "James E.J. Bottomley" et al. | |
| m68k architecture | 15 | Geert Uytterhoeven | |
| kernel nfsd, sunrpc, and lockd servers Supported | 15 | Chuck Lever et al. | |
| sound | 13 | Jaroslav Kysela et al. | |
| nfs, sunrpc, and lockd clients | 13 | Trond Myklebust et al. | |
| kernel selftest framework | 11 | Shuah Khan et al. | |
| memory management | 9 | Andrew Morton | |
| tensilica xtensa port (xtensa) | 8 | Chris Zankel et al. | |
| pressure stall information (psi) | 8 | Johannes Weiner et al. | |
| scheduler | 8 | Ingo Molnar et al. | |
| pnp support | 8 | "Rafael J. Wysocki" | |
| pci subsystem Supported | 7 | Bjorn Helgaas | |
| clocksource, clockevent drivers Supported | 7 | Daniel Lezcano et al. | |
| proc sysctl | 7 | Kees Cook et al. | |
| isapnp | 6 | Jaroslav Kysela | |
| s390 architecture Supported | 6 | Heiko Carstens et al. | |
| x86 platform drivers | 6 | Hans de Goede et al. | |
| arm port Odd Fixes | 5 | Russell King | |
| x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) | 5 | Thomas Gleixner et al. | |
| memory management - allocation profiling (alloc tag) | 5 | Suren Baghdasaryan | |
| sparc + ultrasparc (sparc/sparc64) | 5 | "David S. Miller" et al. | |
| toshiba acpi extras driver | 5 | Azael Avalos | |
| intel pro/wireless 2100, 2200bg, 2915abg network connection support | 5 | Stanislav Yakovlev | |
| user-mode linux (uml) | 5 | Richard Weinberger et al. | |
| ntfs3 filesystem Supported | 5 | Konstantin Komarov | |
| alpha port Odd Fixes | 4 | Richard Henderson et al. | |
| superh | 4 | Yoshinori Sato et al. | |
| kdump | 4 | Andrew Morton et al. | |
| common internet file system client (cifs and smb3) Supported | 4 | Paulo Alcantara et al. | |
| kernel build + files below scripts/ (unless maintained elsewhere) Odd Fixes | 4 | Nathan Chancellor et al. | |
| objtool Supported | 4 | Josh Poimboeuf et al. | |
| documentation | 3 | Jonathan Corbet | |
| input (keyboard, mouse, joystick, touchscreen) drivers | 3 | Dmitry Torokhov | |
| memory management - swap | 3 | Andrew Morton et al. | |
| srm (alpha) environment access | 3 | Jan-Benedict Glaw | |
| acpi Supported | 3 | "Rafael J. Wysocki" | |
| dell laptop smm driver | 3 | Pali Rohár | |
| hardware monitoring | 3 | Guenter Roeck | |
| linux for power macintosh Orphan | 3 | none listed | |
| thinkpad acpi extras driver | 3 | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh | |
| s390 common i/o layer Supported | 3 | Vineeth Vijayan et al. | |
| usb gadget/peripheral subsystem Supported | 3 | Neill Kapron | |
| usb subsystem Supported | 3 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
| via unichrome(pro)/chrome9 framebuffer driver | 3 | Florian Tobias Schandinat | |
| framebuffer layer | 3 | Helge Deller | |
| jfs filesystem Odd Fixes | 3 | Dave Kleikamp | |
| irq subsystem | 3 | Thomas Gleixner | |
| dynamic debug | 3 | Jason Baron et al. | |
| scsi sg driver | 3 | Doug Gilbert | |
| locking primitives | 3 | Peter Zijlstra et al. | |
| netfilter | 3 | Pablo Neira Ayuso et al. | |
| kfifo | 3 | Stefani Seibold | |
| mips | 2 | Thomas Bogendoerfer | |
| tty layer and serial drivers Supported | 2 | Greg Kroah-Hartman et al. | |
| atm | 2 | Chas Williams | |
| opl4 driver | 2 | Clemens Ladisch | |
| parisc architecture | 1 | "James E.J. Bottomley" et al. | |
| agpgart driver | 1 | David Airlie | |
| drm drivers | 1 | David Airlie et al. | |
| intel drm i915 driver (meteor lake, dg2 and older excluding poulsbo, moorestown and derivative) Supported | 1 | Jani Nikula et al. | |
| omfs filesystem | 1 | Bob Copeland | |
| kcore | 1 | Omar Sandoval | |
| memory management - misc | 1 | Andrew Morton et al. | |
| ppp over l2tp | 1 | James Chapman | |
| ipc | 1 | Andrew Morton | |
| module support | 1 | Luis Chamberlain et al. | |
| control group (cgroup) | 1 | Tejun Heo et al. | |
| journalling layer for block devices (jbd2) | 1 | "Theodore Ts'o" et al. | |
| focusrite control protocol/scarlett2 mixer drivers (scarlett gen 2+, clarett, and vocaster) | 1 | Geoffrey D. Bennett | |
| nubus subsystem | 1 | Finn Thain | |
| memory management - slab allocator | 1 | Vlastimil Babka et al. | |
| rust Supported | 1 | Miguel Ojeda |