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 12 patches in this subsystem on linux-serial, ordered by date desc.

• WARM2d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE477d LANDED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v5 04/12] driver core: Constify API device_find_child() and adapt for various usages
  2024-12-24 · Zijun Hu <hidden>
• STALE526d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v4 04/11] driver core: Constify API device_find_child() then adapt for various usages
  2024-12-11 · Zijun Hu <hidden>
• STALE551d [PATCH v3 04/11] driver core: Constify API device_find_child() then adapt for various usages
  2024-12-05 · Zijun Hu <hidden>
• STALE976d [PATCH 7/7] block, drivers: make lots of attribute_group globals const
  2023-10-09 · Max Kellermann <hidden>
• STALE976d [PATCH 6/7] fs/sysfs/group: make attribute_group pointers const
  2023-10-09 · Max Kellermann <hidden>
• STALE1227d LANDED: 19 (18M) [PATCH v2 05/16] driver core: make struct device_type.uevent() take a const *
  2023-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1248d [PATCH 3/5] driver core: make struct device_type.uevent() take a const *
  2022-11-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE2061d LANDED [RFC] treewide: cleanup unreachable breaks
  2020-10-17 · trix@redhat.com
• STALE3342d [PATCH 01/29] drivers, block: convert xen_blkif.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  2017-03-06 · Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
• STALE3444d Re: [PATCH V5 3/3] ARM64 LPC: LPC driver implementation on Hip06
  2016-11-23 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>