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Latest 30 postings or standalone patches (up to 30), newest first. Counts below cover matching patches in linuxppc-dev touching this subsystem.

• fs: don't use pseudo filesystem files as storage rfc · 3 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RFC 01/41] loop: refuse backing files that aren't open for reading 2026-11-10
  • [PATCH RFC 34/41] loop: refuse files on pseudo filesystems as backing files 2026-11-10
  • [PATCH RFC 35/41] zloop: refuse zone files on pseudo filesystems 2026-11-10
  2026-11-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 2 of 3 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed 2026-09-11
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed 2026-07-21
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed 2026-07-08
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• scsi/block: NUMA-local scan allocations, shared-tag path cleanup, and SCSI I/O counters v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 3/4] block: drop shared-tag fairness throttling 2026-06-09
  2026-06-09 · Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@broadcom.com>
• Convert moduleparams to seq_buf v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: PENDING · 1 of 11 reviewed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS 2026-05-21
  • [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci 2026-05-21
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• mm: globalize rest_of_page() macro v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate 2026-03-04
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• cleanup bitmaps printing in sysfs v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 07/12] mm: add rest_of_page() macro 2026-02-19
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• [PATCH] partitions: mac: fix exposing free space as partitions 2025-12-20 · René Rebe <hidden>
• [PATCH RESEND] drivers: Add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION to PowerMac drivers 2025-12-08 · René Rebe <hidden>
• [PATCH] drivers: Add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION to PowerMac drivers 2025-12-05 · René Rebe <hidden>
• initrd: remove classic initrd support resend · 5 matching patches

  Entire posting: Pending Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size 2025-09-13
  • [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter 2025-09-13
  • [PATCH RESEND 19/62] init: remove mentions of "ramdisk=" command line parameter 2025-09-13
  • [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h> 2025-09-14
  • [PATCH RESEND 46/62] init: edit docs for initramfs-related configs 2025-09-14
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• dma-mapping: migrate to physical address-based API v6 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: REVIEWED · 13 of 16 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v6 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page 2025-09-09
  • [PATCH v6 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path 2025-09-09
  2025-09-09 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• Cleanup free_pages() misuse v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 2/7] aoe: Stop calling page_address() in free_page() 2025-09-03
  2025-09-03 · Vishal Moola (Oracle) <hidden>
• dma-mapping: migrate to physical address-based API v5 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v5 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page 2025-09-02
  • [PATCH v5 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path 2025-09-02
  2025-09-02 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• nios2: Add architecture support for clone3 v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 2/4] copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree 2025-09-01
  2025-09-01 · Simon Schuster via B4 Relay <devnull+schuster.simon.siemens-energy.com@kernel.org>
• floppy: A couple of cleanups v2 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: LANDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 2/3] floppy: Replace custom SZ_64K constant 2025-08-25
  • [PATCH v2 3/3] floppy: Sort headers alphabetically 2025-08-25
  2025-08-25 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• dma-mapping: migrate to physical address-based API v4 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v4 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page 2025-08-19
  • [PATCH v4 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path 2025-08-19
  2025-08-19 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• dma-mapping: migrate to physical address-based API v3 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page 2025-08-14
  • [PATCH v3 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path 2025-08-14
  2025-08-14 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• dma-mapping: migrate to physical address-based API v2 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page 2025-08-14
  • [PATCH v2 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path 2025-08-14
  2025-08-14 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• dma-mapping: migrate to physical address-based API v1 · 2 matching patches

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v1 14/16] block-dma: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page 2025-08-04
  • [PATCH v1 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path 2025-08-04
  2025-08-04 · Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
• [PATCH] block: ps3disk: Use str_read_write() helper 2025-04-01 · <hidden>
• Guaranteed CMA rfc · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [RFC 1/3] mm: implement cleancache 2025-03-20
  2025-03-20 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• LANDED [PATCH] ps3disk: Do not use dev->bounce_size before it is set 2025-01-03 · Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
• Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() v3 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: PENDING · 18 of 19 landed Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v3 12/19] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies() 2024-12-10
  2024-12-10 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() v2 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH v2 13/21] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies() 2024-11-15
  2024-11-15 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() v1 · 1 matching patch

  Entire posting: SUPERSEDED Open cover letterLifecycle progress covers the full posting, including patches outside this subsystem and inbox.

  • [PATCH 13/22] xen/blkback: Convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies() 2024-11-15
  2024-11-15 · Easwar Hariharan <hidden>
• LANDED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH 26/26] block: move the bounce flag into the features field 2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• LANDED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH 25/26] block: move the skip_tagset_quiesce flag to queue_limits 2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• LANDED · 1 review, 1 by a maintainer [PATCH 24/26] block: move the pci_p2pdma flag to queue_limits 2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>