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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v8 00/10] Fix missing fops.owner in Rust DRM/misc abstractions
  2026-07-13 06:48 · 1 reply in 7d · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 0/2] Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-08 15:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
  5 attestations (5 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-13
• Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-13
• Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
  3 attestations (3 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-07-03
• Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-03

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 21 (21M) [PATCH v8 07/10] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-07-13 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-03 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-07-01 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v6 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-29 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COOLING11d 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>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 4/7] block: rnull: use vertical import style
  2026-06-29 · Guru Das Srinagesh <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 21 (21M) [PATCH v7 07/10] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-27 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 21 (21M) [PATCH v6 07/10] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v5 7/9] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v4 7/9] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH] nbd: Reclassify sockets to avoid lockdep circular dependency
  2026-06-13 · Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
• COLD27d [PATCH v5 5/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-12 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD27d [PATCH v5 1/9] block: partitions: of: Skip child nodes without reg property
  2026-06-12 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH v4 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-09 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD33d [PATCH v3 4/7] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-06-08 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD32d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD60d [PATCH v2 4/8] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-05-07 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE64d [PATCH v3 2/2] drbd: replace genl_magic with explicit netlink serialization
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE64d [PATCH v3 1/2] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE67d [PATCH v2 2/2] drbd: replace genl_magic with explicit netlink serialization
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE67d [PATCH v2 1/2] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE68d [PATCH 3/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-04-28 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE69d [PATCH 4/4] drbd: switch from genl_magic macros to YNL-generated code
  2026-04-07 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE69d [PATCH 1/4] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-04-07 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE99d [PATCH v2] treewide: use get_random_u{16,32,64}() where appropriate
  2026-04-04 · David Carlier <hidden>
• STALE107d [PATCH 5/5] nbd: Use lock_sock_try() for TCP sendmsg() and shutdown().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE107d [PATCH 2/5] nbd: Reject unconnected sockets in nbd_get_socket().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE107d [PATCH 1/5] nbd: Remove redundant sock->ops->shutdown() check in nbd_get_socket().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.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.

• COLD19d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v4 7/9] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v5 7/9] rust: configfs: use `LocalModule` for `THIS_MODULE`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING11d 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

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.

• STALE131d [PATCH 07/12] mm: add rest_of_page() macro
  2026-02-19 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• STALE101d [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>
• STALE107d [PATCH 1/5] nbd: Remove redundant sock->ops->shutdown() check in nbd_get_socket().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE107d [PATCH 2/5] nbd: Reject unconnected sockets in nbd_get_socket().
  2026-03-25 · Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
• STALE69d [PATCH 1/4] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-04-07 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE68d [PATCH 3/9] block: implement NVMEM provider
  2026-04-28 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• STALE67d [PATCH v2 1/2] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE67d [PATCH v2 2/2] drbd: replace genl_magic with explicit netlink serialization
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
• STALE64d [PATCH v3 1/2] drbd: move UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/
  2026-05-06 · Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>