ramdisk ram block device driver · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst
• F drivers/block/brd.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 29 patches in this subsystem on linuxppc-dev, ordered by date desc.

• STALE259d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE259d [PATCH RESEND 16/62] brd: remove "ramdisk_size" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE259d [PATCH RESEND 15/62] doc: modernize Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE259d [PATCH RESEND 06/62] arm: init: remove special logic for setting brd.rd_size
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE259d [PATCH RESEND 05/62] init: remove "ramdisk_start" command line parameter, which controls starting block number of initrd
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE690d LANDED [PATCH 19/26] block: move the nowait flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE690d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 18/26] block: move the synchronous flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE690d LANDED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 14/26] block: move the nonrot flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE739d [PATCH 19/26] block: move the nowait flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE739d [PATCH 18/26] block: move the synchronous flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE739d [PATCH 14/26] block: move the nonrot flag to queue_limits
  2024-06-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE1373d LANDED [PATCH] block: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy
  2022-08-18 · Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
• STALE1695d LANDED [PATCH 01/13] block/brd: add error handling support for add_disk()
  2021-10-15 · Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• STALE1845d LANDED [PATCH 06/26] brd: convert to blk_alloc_disk/blk_cleanup_disk
  2021-05-21 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2184d [PATCH 16/20] block: move ->make_request_fn to struct block_device_operations
  2020-07-01 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2184d [PATCH 16/20] block: move ->make_request_fn to struct block_device_operations
  2020-06-29 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE3582d [PATCH 07/15] genhd: Add attribute group parameter to device_add_disk
  2016-08-17 · Fam Zheng <hidden>
• STALE3582d [PATCH 15/15] block: Add FIXME comment to handle device_add_disk error
  2016-08-17 · Fam Zheng <hidden>
• STALE3582d [PATCH 01/15] disk: Drop add_disk in favor of device_add_disk
  2016-08-17 · Fam Zheng <hidden>
• STALE3647d [PATCH v2 01/12] genhd: Add "gen_uevent" parameter to add_disk
  2016-06-30 · Fam Zheng <hidden>
• STALE3964d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v5 7/7] pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  2015-08-18 · Ross Zwisler <hidden>
• STALE3964d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v4 7/7] pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  2015-08-18 · Ross Zwisler <hidden>
• STALE3965d [PATCH v3 7/7] pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  2015-08-17 · Ross Zwisler <hidden>
• STALE3965d [PATCH v2 7/7] pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  2015-08-13 · Ross Zwisler <hidden>
• STALE4594d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 07/25] block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter
  2013-11-27 · Kent Overstreet <hidden>
• STALE4620d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 07/23] block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter
  2013-10-29 · Kent Overstreet <hidden>
• STALE4640d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH 07/22] block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter
  2013-08-07 · Kent Overstreet <hidden>
• STALE4745d [PATCH 06/26] block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter
  2013-06-09 · Kent Overstreet <hidden>
• STALE4838d [PATCH 04/22] block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter
  2013-03-27 · Kent Overstreet <hidden>