module support · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
• M Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• M Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>
• M Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
• R Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/kmod.h
• F include/linux/module*.h
• F kernel/module/
• F lib/test_kmod.c
• F lib/tests/module/
• F rust/kernel/module*.rs
• F rust/macros/module.rs
• F scripts/module*
• F tools/testing/selftests/kmod/
• F tools/testing/selftests/module/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v7 0/4] tracing: improve symbolic printing
  2026-09-22 11:10 · 1 reply in 7d · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 0/4] tracing: improve symbolic printing
  2026-09-21 10:15 · 1 reply in 7d · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-11

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH v7 1/4] tracing: add __print_sym() to replace __print_symbolic()
  2026-09-22 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 1/4] tracing: add __print_sym() to replace __print_symbolic()
  2026-09-21 · Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
• WARM1d [PATCH 6/6] module: Remove the error-injection.h include from linux/module.h
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 3/3] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v3 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD41d REVIEWED: 39 (39M) [PATCH v10 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-08-11 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD41d REVIEWED: 39 (39M) [PATCH v10 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-08-11 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD51d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v9 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-07-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD51d REVIEWED: 38 (38M) [PATCH v9 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-07-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• COLD57d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 3/3] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD57d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE67d REVIEWED: 26 (26M) [PATCH v8 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-07-13 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE67d REVIEWED: 26 (26M) [PATCH v8 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-07-13 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE74d [PATCH 2/2] module: Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE74d [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE69d Re: [PATCH net v2] ppp: defer channel free to an RCU grace period to fix pppol2tp RX UAF
  2026-07-06 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COLD23d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v19 01/40] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 26 (26M) [PATCH v7 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-27 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE88d REVIEWED: 26 (26M) [PATCH v7 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-27 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 26 (26M) [PATCH v6 09/10] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 26 (26M) [PATCH v6 02/10] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE90d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v5 9/9] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE90d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v5 2/9] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE91d [PATCH v4 2/9] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE91d [PATCH v4 9/9] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-23 · Alvin Sun <hidden>
• STALE84d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• STALE188d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE188d [PATCH v2 1/2] kthread: remove kthread_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE160d [PATCH 17/61] module: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE160d [PATCH 21/61] lib/test: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>

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.

• STALE90d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v5 2/9] rust: module: add `THIS_MODULE` const to `ModuleMetadata` trait
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE90d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v5 9/9] rust: macros: remove `THIS_MODULE` static from `module!`
  2026-06-24 · Alvin Sun <hidden> · 2 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.

• STALE160d [PATCH 21/61] lib/test: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• COLD57d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>