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

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
  3 attestations (3 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-07-03
• Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-03

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-03 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-01 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH v6 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD31d [PATCH v5 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-12 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD31d [PATCH v5 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-12 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD34d [PATCH v4 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-09 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD37d [PATCH v3 4/7] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-08 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE64d [PATCH v2 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-05-07 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE72d [PATCH 3/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-04-28 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE71d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrián García Casado <hidden>
• STALE123d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrián García Casado <hidden>
• STALE123d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrian Garcia Cicuelo <hidden>
• STALE91d [PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE576d [PATCH v3 12/19] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2024-12-10 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE584d [PATCH v2 13/21] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2024-11-15 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE590d [PATCH 13/22] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
  2024-11-15 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• STALE764d LANDED [PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-05-16 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE812d [PATCH v2 06/25] virtio_blk: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-31 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• STALE837d [PATCH 03/22] virtio_blk: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-27 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• STALE854d [FYI][PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-02-23 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1255d Re: [syzbot] general protection fault in skb_dequeue (3)
  2023-02-02 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE1301d [PATCH] treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()
  2022-12-20 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1282d LANDED [PATCH 1/5] driver core: make struct class.dev_uevent() take a const *
  2022-11-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE1335d Re: [PATCH v4a 00/38] timers: Use timer_shutdown*() before freeing timers
  2022-11-05 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1368d REVIEWED: 27 (26M) [PATCH v6 6/7] treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1368d REVIEWED: 27 (26M) [PATCH v6 2/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 2
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1368d REVIEWED: 28 (27M) [PATCH v6 1/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1376d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 6/7] treewide: use get_random_bytes when possible
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1376d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 2/7] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 2
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• COLD15d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-01 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com> · 1 Reviewed-by

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.

• STALE123d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrian Garcia Cicuelo <hidden>
• STALE123d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrián García Casado <hidden>
• STALE71d [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: block: rnull: update to Pin<KBox<QueueData>> for PinInit
  2026-03-15 · Adrián García Casado <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH 3/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-04-28 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>