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 11 patches in this subsystem on linux-spi, ordered by date desc.

• COOLING12d [PATCH v2 01/14] drbd: Open-code transfer log list walk
  2026-06-09 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE460d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v3 06/16] rbd: convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2025-02-25 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE496d [PATCH 06/16] rbd: convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2025-01-28 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE2074d [PATCH] block: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API
  2020-08-17 · Allen Pais <hidden>
• STALE2170d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 03/16] drbd: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  2020-06-20 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2170d [PATCH v2 15/16] treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  2020-06-20 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2200d [PATCH 02/10] drbd: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  2020-06-03 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2200d [PATCH 09/10] treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  2020-06-03 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2845d [PATCH] [RFC v2] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/
  2018-09-03 · Henrik Austad <hidden>
• STALE3018d [PATCH 11/16] treewide: simplify Kconfig dependencies for removed archs
  2018-03-14 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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.

• STALE83d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>