block layer · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
• F Documentation/block/
• F block/
• F drivers/block/
• F include/linux/bio.h
• F include/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/blk*
• F include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h
• F kernel/trace/blktrace.c
• F lib/sbitmap.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING6d [PATCH 1/6] block: Include error-injection.h for ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION()
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v3 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD38d REVIEWED: 45 (45M) [PATCH v10 07/10] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-08-11 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v10 06/10] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-08-06 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v10 05/10] block: partitions: of: Attach partition fwnode to the block device
  2026-08-06 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD46d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v9 06/10] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-30 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD46d [PATCH v9 05/10] block: partitions: of: Attach partition fwnode to the block device
  2026-07-30 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 45 (45M) [PATCH v9 07/10] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-07-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE65d REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v8 07/10] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-07-13 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-03 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE80d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-01 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE81d [PATCH v6 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE81d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE77d [PATCH 4/7] block: rnull: use vertical import style
  2026-06-29 · Guru Das Srinagesh <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v7 07/10] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-27 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE85d REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v6 07/10] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE88d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v5 7/9] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE89d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v4 7/9] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE98d [PATCH] nbd: Reclassify sockets to avoid lockdep circular dependency
  2026-06-13 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• STALE97d [PATCH v5 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-12 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE97d [PATCH v5 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-12 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE101d [PATCH v4 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-09 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE103d [PATCH v3 4/7] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-08 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE102d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE130d [PATCH v2 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-05-07 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE134d [PATCH v3 2/2] drbd: replace genl_magic with explicit netlink serialization
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE134d [PATCH v3 1/2] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.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.

• STALE89d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v4 7/9] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE88d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v5 7/9] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE81d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE80d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-01 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v10 05/10] block: partitions: of: Attach partition fwnode to the block device
  2026-08-06 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com> · 2 Reviewed-by
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v10 06/10] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-08-06 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com> · 1 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE171d [PATCH 7/8] drivers: ALSA: use rest_of_page() macro where appropriate
  2026-03-04 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH net v1] net/ipv6: mcast: fix circular locking dependency in __ipv6_dev_mc_inc()
  2026-03-23 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE177d [PATCH 1/5] nbd: Remove redundant sock->ops->shutdown() check in nbd_get_socket().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE177d [PATCH 2/5] nbd: Reject unconnected sockets in nbd_get_socket().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE139d [PATCH 1/4] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-04-07 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE138d [PATCH 3/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-04-28 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 1/2] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE137d [PATCH v2 2/2] drbd: replace genl_magic with explicit netlink serialization
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE134d [PATCH v3 1/2] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE134d [PATCH v3 2/2] drbd: replace genl_magic with explicit netlink serialization
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>