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 19 patches in this subsystem on linux-sound, ordered by date desc.

• COLD42d [PATCH v2 01/14] drbd: Open-code transfer log list walk
  2026-06-09 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE114d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE317d [PATCH v2 05/13] Documentation: blk-mq: Convert block layer docs external links
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE325d [PATCH 05/14] Documentation: blk-mq: Convert block layer docs external links
  2025-08-29 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE491d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v3 06/16] rbd: convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2025-02-25 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE527d [PATCH 06/16] rbd: convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2025-01-28 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE520d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v5 04/12] driver core: Constify API device_find_child() and adapt for various usages
  2024-12-24 · Zijun Hu <hidden>
• STALE569d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v4 04/11] driver core: Constify API device_find_child() then adapt for various usages
  2024-12-11 · Zijun Hu <hidden>
• STALE585d [PATCH v3 12/19] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2024-12-10 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE594d [PATCH v3 04/11] driver core: Constify API device_find_child() then adapt for various usages
  2024-12-05 · Zijun Hu <hidden>
• STALE593d [PATCH v2 13/21] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2024-11-15 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE599d [PATCH 13/22] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2024-11-15 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE624d [PATCH v2] virtio: only reset device and restore status if needed in device resume
  2024-11-01 · <hidden>
• STALE624d [PATCH] virtio: only reset device and restore status if needed in device resume
  2024-10-31 · <hidden>
• STALE773d LANDED [PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-05-16 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE821d [PATCH v2 06/25] virtio_blk: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-31 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• STALE846d [PATCH 03/22] virtio_blk: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-27 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• STALE863d [FYI][PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-02-23 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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.

• STALE114d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>