Active subsystems
100 subsystems with patch activity in the last 7 days, busiest first. Each links to a dashboard of patches, threads and reviewers.
| Subsystem | Messages, 7 days | Maintainer | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| networking drivers | 665 | Andrew Lunn et al. | |
| drm drivers | 594 | David Airlie et al. | |
| memory management | 511 | Andrew Morton | |
| open firmware and flattened device tree bindings | 468 | Rob Herring et al. | |
| networking [general] | 430 | "David S. Miller" et al. | |
| documentation | 422 | Jonathan Corbet | |
| sound | 382 | Jaroslav Kysela et al. | |
| drm drivers and misc gpu patches | 371 | Maarten Lankhorst et al. | |
| kernel selftest framework | 333 | Shuah Khan et al. | |
| media input infrastructure (v4l/dvb) | 332 | Mauro Carvalho Chehab | |
| x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) | 310 | Thomas Gleixner et al. | |
| performance events subsystem Supported | 304 | Peter Zijlstra et al. | |
| arm/qualcomm support | 243 | Bjorn Andersson et al. | |
| usb subsystem Supported | 223 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
| arm/qualcomm mailing list | 208 | none listed | |
| memory technology devices (mtd) | 199 | Miquel Raynal et al. | |
| hid core layer | 196 | Jiri Kosina et al. | |
| kernel virtual machine for x86 (kvm/x86) Supported | 188 | Sean Christopherson et al. | |
| nand flash subsystem | 181 | Miquel Raynal | |
| sound - soc layer / dynamic audio power management (asoc) Supported | 163 | Liam Girdwood et al. | |
| scheduler | 163 | Ingo Molnar et al. | |
| iio subsystem and drivers | 157 | Jonathan Cameron | |
| arm64 port (aarch64 architecture) | 146 | Catalin Marinas et al. | |
| dma generic offload engine subsystem | 134 | Vinod Koul | |
| common clk framework | 129 | Stephen Boyd et al. | |
| x86 platform drivers | 121 | Hans de Goede et al. | |
| bpf [general] (safe dynamic programs and tools) Supported | 121 | Alexei Starovoitov et al. | |
| drm driver for qualcomm display hardware | 115 | Rob Clark et al. | |
| iommu subsystem | 113 | Joerg Roedel et al. | |
| pci subsystem Supported | 112 | Bjorn Helgaas | |
| tty layer and serial drivers Supported | 110 | Greg Kroah-Hartman et al. | |
| block layer | 107 | Jens Axboe | |
| tracing | 106 | Steven Rostedt et al. | |
| risc-v architecture Supported | 104 | Paul Walmsley et al. | |
| kernel virtual machine (kvm) Supported | 104 | Paolo Bonzini | |
| memory management - core | 103 | David Hildenbrand | |
| hardware monitoring | 97 | Guenter Roeck | |
| arm/freescale imx / mxc / layerscape arm architecture | 97 | Frank Li et al. | |
| pin control subsystem | 94 | Linus Walleij | |
| scsi subsystem | 94 | "James E.J. Bottomley" et al. | |
| mips | 93 | Thomas Bogendoerfer | |
| rust Supported | 90 | Miguel Ojeda | |
| security subsystem Supported | 85 | Paul Moore et al. | |
| generic phy framework Supported | 84 | Vinod Koul | |
| driver core, kobjects, debugfs and sysfs Supported | 83 | Greg Kroah-Hartman et al. | |
| ethernet phy library | 81 | Andrew Lunn et al. | |
| crypto api | 81 | Herbert Xu et al. | |
| radeon and amdgpu drm drivers Supported | 79 | Alex Deucher et al. | |
| memory management - mglru (multi-gen lru) | 77 | Andrew Morton | |
| memory management - reclaim | 76 | Andrew Morton et al. | |
| infiniband subsystem Supported | 68 | Jason Gunthorpe et al. | |
| networking [dsa] | 67 | Andrew Lunn et al. | |
| hantro vpu codec driver | 65 | Nicolas Dufresne et al. | |
| kernel virtual machine for arm64 (kvm/arm64) | 65 | Marc Zyngier et al. | |
| rdt - resource allocation Supported | 64 | Tony Luck et al. | |
| arm/allwinner sunxi soc support | 63 | Chen-Yu Tsai et al. | |
| multifunction devices (mfd) | 62 | Lee Jones | |
| usb gadget/peripheral subsystem Supported | 60 | Neill Kapron | |
| read-copy update (rcu) Supported | 59 | "Paul E. McKenney" et al. | |
| nitro enclaves (ne) Supported | 58 | Alexandru Ciobotaru | |
| kernel smb3 server (ksmbd) | 57 | Namjae Jeon et al. | |
| memory management - thp (transparent huge page) | 56 | David Hildenbrand et al. | |
| input (keyboard, mouse, joystick, touchscreen) drivers | 56 | Dmitry Torokhov | |
| linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit) Supported | 55 | Madhavan Srinivasan | |
| s390 architecture Supported | 55 | Heiko Carstens et al. | |
| spi subsystem | 55 | Mark Brown | |
| drm drivers for bridge chips | 55 | Andrzej Hajda et al. | |
| i2c subsystem host drivers | 54 | Andi Shyti | |
| staging subsystem Supported | 54 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
| nvm express driver Supported | 54 | Keith Busch et al. | |
| live update | 54 | Pasha Tatashin et al. | |
| hid++ logitech drivers | 52 | none listed | |
| gpio subsystem | 51 | Linus Walleij et al. | |
| memory management - misc | 50 | Andrew Morton et al. | |
| amd display core Supported | 50 | Harry Wentland et al. | |
| control group (cgroup) | 50 | Tejun Heo et al. | |
| irqchip drivers | 48 | Thomas Gleixner | |
| acpi Supported | 47 | "Rafael J. Wysocki" | |
| bpf [selftests] (test runners & infrastructure) | 46 | Andrii Nakryiko et al. | |
| documentation process | 45 | Jonathan Corbet | |
| led subsystem | 45 | Lee Jones et al. | |
| memory management - swap | 44 | Andrew Morton et al. | |
| system control & power/management interface (scpi/scmi) message protocol drivers | 43 | Sudeep Holla | |
| damon | 42 | SJ Park | |
| oracle cluster filesystem 2 (ocfs2) Supported | 42 | Mark Fasheh et al. | |
| drm drivers and common infrastructure [rust] Supported | 41 | Danilo Krummrich et al. | |
| can network drivers | 41 | Marc Kleine-Budde et al. | |
| libata subsystem (serial and parallel ata drivers) | 41 | Damien Le Moal et al. | |
| arm port Odd Fixes | 40 | Russell King | |
| stmmac ethernet driver | 40 | Maxime Chevallier | |
| tpm device driver | 40 | Peter Huewe et al. | |
| nvm express target driver Supported | 40 | Christoph Hellwig et al. | |
| power supply class/subsystem and drivers | 39 | Sebastian Reichel | |
| realtek wireless driver (rtw88) | 39 | Ping-Ke Shih | |
| usb networking drivers Odd Fixes | 38 | none listed | |
| arm mali panfrost drm driver Supported | 38 | Boris Brezillon et al. | |
| vfio driver | 38 | Alex Williamson | |
| qualcomm ath12k wireless driver Supported | 37 | Jeff Johnson | |
| control group - cpuset | 37 | Waiman Long | |
| bluetooth drivers Supported | 36 | Marcel Holtmann et al. |