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

Recent patches

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

• COLD56d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3] docs: packing: fix brackets
  2026-07-10 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD57d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2] docs: packaging: fix brackets
  2026-07-09 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• COLD57d [PATCH] docs: packing: fix brackets
  2026-07-09 · Manuel Ebner <hidden>
• STALE436d [PATCH] lib: packing: Include necessary headers
  2025-06-24 · Nathan Lynch via B4 Relay <devnull+nathan.lynch.amd.com@kernel.org>
• STALE452d LANDED [PATCH] docs: packing: Fix a typo in example code.
  2025-06-09 · Collin Funk <hidden>
• STALE631d [PATCH net-next v10 03/10] lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields()
  2024-12-10 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE631d [PATCH net-next v10 04/10] lib: packing: document recently added APIs
  2024-12-10 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE631d [PATCH net-next v10 02/10] lib: packing: demote truncation error in pack() to a warning in __pack()
  2024-12-10 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE631d [PATCH net-next v10 01/10] lib: packing: create __pack() and __unpack() variants without error checking
  2024-12-10 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE633d [PATCH net-next v9 03/10] lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields()
  2024-12-05 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE633d [PATCH net-next v9 01/10] lib: packing: create __pack() and __unpack() variants without error checking
  2024-12-05 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE633d [PATCH net-next v9 02/10] lib: packing: demote truncation error in pack() to a warning in __pack()
  2024-12-05 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE633d [PATCH net-next v9 04/10] lib: packing: document recently added APIs
  2024-12-05 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE638d Re: [PATCH net-next v8 03/10] lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields()
  2024-12-04 · Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
• STALE638d [PATCH net-next v8 03/10] lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields()
  2024-12-03 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE638d [PATCH net-next v8 01/10] lib: packing: create __pack() and __unpack() variants without error checking
  2024-12-03 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE638d [PATCH net-next v8 02/10] lib: packing: demote truncation error in pack() to a warning in __pack()
  2024-12-03 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE638d [PATCH net-next v8 04/10] lib: packing: document recently added APIs
  2024-12-03 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE640d [PATCH net-next v7 3/9] lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields()
  2024-12-03 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE640d [PATCH net-next v7 2/9] lib: packing: demote truncation error in pack() to a warning in __pack()
  2024-12-03 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE640d [PATCH net-next v7 1/9] lib: packing: create __pack() and __unpack() variants without error checking
  2024-12-03 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next RFC v6 3/9] lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields()
  2024-11-19 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE655d [PATCH net-next RFC v6 2/9] lib: packing: demote truncation error in pack() to a warning in __pack()
  2024-11-19 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE655d [PATCH net-next RFC v6 1/9] lib: packing: create __pack() and __unpack() variants without error checking
  2024-11-19 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE658d [PATCH net-next v5 3/9] lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields()
  2024-11-11 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE658d [PATCH net-next v5 2/9] lib: packing: demote truncation error in pack() to a warning in __pack()
  2024-11-11 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE658d [PATCH net-next v5 1/9] lib: packing: create __pack() and __unpack() variants without error checking
  2024-11-11 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE664d [PATCH net-next v4 3/9] lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields()
  2024-11-09 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE664d [PATCH net-next v4 2/9] lib: packing: demote truncation error in pack() to a warning in __pack()
  2024-11-09 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
• STALE664d [PATCH net-next v4 1/9] lib: packing: create __pack() and __unpack() variants without error checking
  2024-11-09 · Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.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.

• COLD57d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2] docs: packaging: fix brackets
  2026-07-09 · Manuel Ebner <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by