char and misc drivers · Supported

Maintainers

• M Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
• M Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Paths

• F drivers/char/
• F drivers/misc/
• F include/linux/miscdevice.h
• F rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
• F samples/rust/rust_misc_device.rs
• X drivers/char/agp/
• X drivers/char/hw_random/
• X drivers/char/ipmi/
• X drivers/char/random.c
• X drivers/char/tpm/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• STALE122d [RFC PATCH v1 5/9] uaccess: Switch to copy_{to/from}_user_partial() when relevant
  2026-04-27 · "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
• STALE596d LANDED [PATCH v3 11/11] Remove devres from pci_intx()
  2024-12-09 · Philipp Stanner <hidden>
• STALE596d LANDED [PATCH v3 05/11] misc: Use never-managed version of pci_intx()
  2024-12-09 · Philipp Stanner <hidden>
• STALE652d [PATCH v2 11/11] Remove devres from pci_intx()
  2024-11-13 · Philipp Stanner <hidden>
• STALE652d [PATCH v2 05/11] misc: Use never-managed version of pci_intx()
  2024-11-13 · Philipp Stanner <hidden>
• STALE663d [PATCH 12/13] Remove devres from pci_intx()
  2024-10-15 · Philipp Stanner <hidden>
• STALE663d [PATCH 06/13] misc: Use never-managed version of pci_intx()
  2024-10-15 · Philipp Stanner <hidden>
• STALE684d [RFC PATCH 13/13] Remove devres from pci_intx()
  2024-10-09 · Philipp Stanner <hidden>
• STALE684d [RFC PATCH 06/13] misc: Use never-managed version of pci_intx()
  2024-10-09 · Philipp Stanner <hidden>
• STALE808d LANDED [PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-05-16 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE856d [PATCH v2 15/25] misc: nsm: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-31 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• STALE856d [PATCH v2 09/25] virtio_console: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-31 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• STALE881d [PATCH 12/22] misc: nsm: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-27 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• STALE881d [PATCH 06/22] virtio_console: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-27 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• STALE898d [FYI][PATCH] tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()
  2024-02-23 · Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• STALE1038d [PATCH v2 13/13] misc: rtsx: Use pci_disable/enable_link_state()
  2023-09-18 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1263d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] firmware: qcom_scm: Use fixed width src vm bitmap
  2023-02-13 · Elliot Berman <hidden>
• STALE1298d LANDED [PATCH] firmware: qcom_scm: Move qcom_scm.h to include/linux/firmware/qcom/
  2023-02-03 · Elliot Berman <hidden>
• STALE1263d [PATCH v9 17/27] firmware: qcom_scm: Use fixed width src vm bitmap
  2023-01-20 · Elliot Berman <hidden>
• STALE1317d [PATCH v8 18/28] firmware: qcom_scm: Use fixed width src vm bitmap
  2022-12-19 · Elliot Berman <hidden>
• STALE1311d [PATCH v7 18/20] firmware: qcom_scm: Use fixed width src vm bitmap
  2022-11-21 · Elliot Berman <hidden>
• STALE1401d [RFC 1/5] misc: introduce notify-device driver
  2022-10-26 · Matthias Schiffer <hidden>
• STALE1412d REVIEWED: 28 (27M) [PATCH v6 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1420d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1421d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 4/6] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1421d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1606d [PATCH 07/22] cm4000: Replace comments with C99 initializers
  2022-03-26 · Benjamin Stürz <hidden>
• STALE1606d [PATCH 17/22] cxl: Replace comments with C99 initializers
  2022-03-26 · Benjamin Stürz <hidden>
• STALE1636d [PATCH 6/6] treewide: remove check of list iterator against head past the loop body
  2022-02-28 · Jakob Koschel <hidden>
• STALE1641d LANDED [PATCH 5/5] spi: make remove callback a void function
  2022-01-23 · Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>