packing · Supported

Maintainers

• M Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/packing.rst
• F include/linux/packing.h
• F lib/packing.c
• F lib/packing_test.c
• F scripts/gen_packed_field_checks.c

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-10
• Randy Dunlap <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-10

Recent patches

Most-recent 25 patches in this subsystem on lkml, ordered by date desc.

• COLD19d REVIEWED: 9 (8M) [PATCH v3] docs: packing: fix brackets
  2026-07-10 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2] docs: packaging: fix brackets
  2026-07-09 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH] docs: packing: fix brackets
  2026-07-09 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE343d Re: Linux 6.15.11
  2025-08-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.16.2
  2025-08-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.43
  2025-08-20 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE398d [PATCH] lib: packing: Include necessary headers
  2025-06-24 · Nathan Lynch via B4 Relay <devnull+nathan.lynch.amd.com@kernel.org>
• STALE415d LANDED [PATCH] docs: packing: Fix a typo in example code.
  2025-06-09 · Collin Funk <hidden>
• STALE629d [PATCH net-next v2 3/9] lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields()
  2024-10-26 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE629d [PATCH net-next v2 2/9] lib: packing: demote truncation error in pack() to a warning in __pack()
  2024-10-26 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE629d [PATCH net-next v2 1/9] lib: packing: create __pack() and __unpack() variants without error checking
  2024-10-26 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE643d [PATCH net-next 3/8] lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields()
  2024-10-11 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE643d [PATCH net-next 2/8] lib: packing: demote truncation error in pack() to a warning in __pack()
  2024-10-11 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE643d [PATCH net-next 1/8] lib: packing: create __pack() and __unpack() variants without error checking
  2024-10-11 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE658d [PATCH net-next] lib: packing: catch kunit_kzalloc() failure in the pack() test
  2024-10-04 · Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
• STALE1237d LANDED [PATCH] lib: packing: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  2023-03-08 · Nick Alcock <hidden>
• STALE1248d [PATCH 27/27] lib: packing: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  2023-02-24 · Nick Alcock <hidden>
• STALE1163d [PATCH v10 05/13] kbuild: remove MODULE_LICENSE/AUTHOR/DESCRIPTION in non-modules
  2022-12-05 · Nick Alcock <hidden>
• STALE2221d [PATCH net] lib: packing: add documentation for pbuflen argument
  2020-06-28 · Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
• STALE2581d [PATCH] docs: packing: move it to core-api book and adjust markups
  2019-06-29 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
• STALE2644d [PATCH v5 net-next 01/12] lib: Add support for generic packing operations
  2019-05-02 · Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
• STALE2645d [PATCH v4 net-next 01/12] lib: Add support for generic packing operations
  2019-04-29 · Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
• STALE2660d [PATCH v3 net-next 01/24] lib: Add support for generic packing operations
  2019-04-13 · Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
• STALE2666d [PATCH v2 net-next 01/22] lib: Add support for generic packing operations
  2019-04-10 · Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
• STALE2673d [PATCH net-next 01/17] lib: Add support for generic packing operations
  2019-03-31 · Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.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.

• COLD20d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2] docs: packaging: fix brackets
  2026-07-09 · Manuel Ebner <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 9 (8M) [PATCH v3] docs: packing: fix brackets
  2026-07-10 · Manuel Ebner <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by