char and misc drivers · Supported

Maintainers

• M Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
• M Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Paths

• F drivers/char/
• F drivers/misc/
• F include/linux/miscdevice.h
• F rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
• F samples/rust/rust_misc_device.rs
• X drivers/char/agp/
• X drivers/char/hw_random/
• X drivers/char/ipmi/
• X drivers/char/random.c
• X drivers/char/tpm/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• [PATCH v2 4/4] misc/mei: gsc_proxy: add dependency on Xe driver
  2026-01-07 · Simon Richter <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 3/4] misc/mei: Allow building standalone for compile testing
  2026-01-07 · Simon Richter <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 2/4] misc/mei: Decouple ME interfaces from GPU drivers
  2026-01-07 · Simon Richter <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 1/4] misc/mei: Allow building Intel ME interface on non-x86
  2026-01-07 · Simon Richter <hidden>
• Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the rust-xarray tree
  2025-04-28 · Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
• [PATCH] miscdevice: rust: use build_error! macro instead of function
  2025-01-10 · Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
• linux-next: build failure after merge of the rust tree
  2025-01-10 · Stephen Rothwell <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 2/2] misc: lan966x_pci: Fix dtc warn 'Missing interrupt-parent'
  2024-10-29 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• [PATCH v2 1/2] misc: lan966x_pci: Fix dtc warns 'missing or empty reg/ranges property'
  2024-10-29 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• [PATCH 2/2] misc: lan966x_pci: Fix dtc warn 'Missing interrupt-parent'
  2024-10-28 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• [PATCH 1/2] misc: lan966x_pci: Fix dtc warns 'missing or empty reg/ranges property'
  2024-10-28 · Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
• [PATCH v2] misc: Silence warning when building the LAN966x device tree overlay
  2024-10-25 · Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
• [PATCH] misc: Silence warnings when building the LAN966x device tree overlay
  2024-10-25 · Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
• Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the char-misc tree
  2023-06-26 · Greg KH <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 char-misc-next] misc: microchip: pci1xxxx: use DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() in place of the SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() in pci1xxxx's gpio driver
  2022-09-15 · Kumaravel Thiagarajan <kumaravel.thiagarajan@microchip.com>
• [PATCH char-misc-next] misc: microchip: pci1xxxx: use DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() in place of the SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() in pci1xxxx's gpio driver
  2022-09-12 · Kumaravel Thiagarajan <kumaravel.thiagarajan@microchip.com>
• linux-next: build failure after merge of the rcu tree
  2019-12-12 · Stephen Rothwell <hidden>
• linux-next: build failure after merge of the char-misc tree
  2019-07-08 · Stephen Rothwell <hidden>
• [PATCH 2/2] misc: fastrpc: Fix device_open when no session is available
  2019-02-15 · Srinivas Kandagatla <hidden>
• [PATCH 1/2] misc: fastrpc: select CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
  2019-02-15 · Srinivas Kandagatla <hidden>
• [PATCH v2] misc: mic: Use memdup_user() as a cleanup
  2017-12-12 · Vasyl Gomonovych <hidden>
• linux-next: build failure after merge of the mfd tree
  2017-12-04 · Stephen Rothwell <hidden>
• [PATCH] drivers/misc: Aspeed LPC control fix format string warning
  2017-03-23 · Cyril Bur <hidden>
• [PATCH] drivers/misc: Aspeed LPC control fix compile error and warning
  2017-03-22 · Cyril Bur <hidden>
• linux-next: build failure after merge of the char-misc tree
  2017-03-20 · Stephen Rothwell <hidden>
• linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree
  2017-03-07 · Stephen Rothwell <hidden>
• Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the pci tree
  2016-06-23 · Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
• linux-next: build failure after merge of the vfs tree
  2015-12-09 · Stephen Rothwell <hidden>
• [PATCH] mei: trace: Remove unused TRACE_SYSTEM_STRING define
  2015-04-13 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• linux-next: build failure after merge of the char-misc tree
  2014-02-21 · Stephen Rothwell <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.

• [PATCH v2 1/4] misc/mei: Allow building Intel ME interface on non-x86
  2026-01-07 · Simon Richter <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 2/4] misc/mei: Decouple ME interfaces from GPU drivers
  2026-01-07 · Simon Richter <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 3/4] misc/mei: Allow building standalone for compile testing
  2026-01-07 · Simon Richter <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 4/4] misc/mei: gsc_proxy: add dependency on Xe driver
  2026-01-07 · Simon Richter <hidden>