printk · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• R Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• R John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• R Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/printk-basics.rst
• F include/linux/printk.h
• F kernel/printk/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE181d [PATCH] printk, vt, fbcon: Remove console_conditional_schedule()
  2026-01-26 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE188d printk's threaded legacy console + fbcon => schedule where it should not
  2026-01-14 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE158d Re: [PATCH 06/19] printk: Introduce register_console_force
  2026-01-14 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE158d [PATCH 19/19] printk: Remove CON_ENABLED flag
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE158d [PATCH 06/19] printk: Introduce register_console_force
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE158d [PATCH 05/19] printk: Add more context to suspend/resume functions
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE158d [PATCH 04/19] printk: Reintroduce consoles_suspended global state
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE158d [PATCH 03/19] printk: Drop flags argument from console_is_usable
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE158d [PATCH 02/19] printk: Introduce console_is_nbcon
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE158d [PATCH 01/19] printk/nbcon: Use an enum to specify the required callback in console_is_usable()
  2025-12-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE238d Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] printk: Make console_{suspend,resume} handle CON_SUSPENDED
  2025-11-27 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE238d [PATCH v2 4/4] printk: Make console_{suspend,resume} handle CON_SUSPENDED
  2025-11-21 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE238d [PATCH v2 3/4] printk: Use console_is_usable on console_unblank
  2025-11-21 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE271d [PATCH 3/3] printk/nbcon: Release nbcon consoles ownership in atomic flush after each emitted record
  2025-09-26 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE271d [PATCH 2/3] printk/nbcon/panic: Allow printk kthread to sleep when the system is in panic
  2025-09-26 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE271d [PATCH 1/3] printk/nbcon: Block printk kthreads when any CPU is in an emergency context
  2025-09-26 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE302d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) Re: [RFC 0/1] serial: 8250: nbcon_atomic_flush_pending() might trigger watchdog warnigns
  2025-09-24 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE302d Re: [RFC 0/1] serial: 8250: nbcon_atomic_flush_pending() might trigger watchdog warnigns
  2025-09-22 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE393d [PATCH 7/7] printk: Don't check for CON_ENABLED on console_unblank
  2025-06-07 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE393d [PATCH 2/7] printk: Use consoles_suspended flag when suspending/resuming all consoles
  2025-06-07 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE393d [PATCH 1/7] printk: Make console_{suspend,resume} handle CON_SUSPENDED
  2025-06-07 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE414d Re: Problem with nbcon console and amba-pl011 serial port
  2025-06-06 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• STALE414d Re: Problem with nbcon console and amba-pl011 serial port
  2025-06-06 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• STALE414d [PATCH] printk: Allow to use the printk kthread immediately even for 1st nbcon
  2025-06-04 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE414d RE: Problem with nbcon console and amba-pl011 serial port
  2025-06-04 · Toshiyuki Sato (Fujitsu) <hidden>
• STALE420d Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] printk: Don't flush messages using write_atomic during console registration if kthreads have not been started yet.
  2025-06-03 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• STALE420d Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] printk: Don't flush messages using write_atomic during console registration if kthreads have not been started yet.
  2025-06-02 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• STALE420d Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] printk: Don't flush messages using write_atomic during console registration if kthreads have not been started yet.
  2025-05-31 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• STALE420d Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] printk: Don't flush messages using write_atomic during console registration if kthreads have not been started yet.
  2025-05-16 · John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
• STALE420d [PATCH RFC 1/3] printk: Don't flush messages using write_atomic during console registration if kthreads have not been started yet.
  2025-05-14 · Michael Cobb <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.

• STALE158d Re: [PATCH 06/19] printk: Introduce register_console_force
  2026-01-14 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>