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

• COLD22d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD22d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE77d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE423d LANDED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 6/7] block: remove bounce buffering support
  2025-05-05 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE424d [PATCH 6/7] block: remove bounce buffering support
  2025-05-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE498d 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>
• STALE546d 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>
• STALE571d [PATCH v3 04/11] driver core: Constify API device_find_child() then adapt for various usages
  2024-12-05 · Zijun Hu <hidden>
• STALE750d LANDED [PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-05-16 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE756d LANDED: 15 (15M) [PATCH 23/23] block: remove now unused queue limits helpers
  2024-04-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE756d LANDED: 15 (15M) [PATCH 02/23] bsg: pass queue_limits to bsg_setup_queue
  2024-04-09 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE772d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 23/23] block: remove now unused queue limits helpers
  2024-04-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE772d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 02/23] bsg: pass queue_limits to bsg_setup_queue
  2024-04-02 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE827d [PATCH 23/23] block: remove now unused queue limits helpers
  2024-03-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE827d [PATCH 02/23] bsg: pass queue_limits to bsg_setup_queue
  2024-03-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE827d [PATCH 01/23] block: don't reject too large max_user_setors in blk_validate_limits
  2024-03-24 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE840d [FYI][PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-02-23 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE997d [PATCH 6/7] fs/sysfs/group: make attribute_group pointers const
  2023-10-09 · Max Kellermann <hidden>
• STALE989d [PATCH 03/19] fs: release anon dev_t in deactivate_locked_super
  2023-09-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1247d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 06/16] driver core: make struct device_type.devnode() take a const *
  2023-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1247d 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>
• STALE1287d [PATCH] treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()
  2022-12-20 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1269d [PATCH 4/5] driver core: make struct device_type.devnode() take a const *
  2022-11-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1269d [PATCH 3/5] driver core: make struct device_type.uevent() take a const *
  2022-11-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1269d LANDED [PATCH 2/5] driver core: make struct class.devnode() take a const *
  2022-11-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1269d LANDED [PATCH 1/5] driver core: make struct class.dev_uevent() take a const *
  2022-11-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1301d [PATCH v1 2/3] Treewide: Stop corrupting socket's task_frag
  2022-11-21 · Benjamin Coddington <hidden>
• STALE1322d Re: [PATCH v4a 00/38] timers: Use timer_shutdown*() before freeing timers
  2022-11-05 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1336d Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 20/31] timers: usb: Use del_timer_shutdown() before freeing timer
  2022-10-28 · Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
• STALE1354d REVIEWED: 27 (26M) [PATCH v6 6/7] treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>