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)

• WARM3d [PATCH v5 0/2] bootdev: few fixes for automatic boot
  2026-06-23 22:07 · 1 reply in 7d · <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v4 0/2] bootdev: few fixes for automatic boot
  2026-06-23 01:49 · 1 reply in 7d · <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• WARM3d [PATCH v5 2/2] test: bootdev: scan with a broken high-priority device
  2026-06-23 · <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v4 2/2] test: bootdev: scan with a broken high-priority device
  2026-06-23 · <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v3 3/3] test: bootdev: scan with a broken high-priority device
  2026-06-21 · <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v2 3/3] test: bootdev: scan with a broken high-priority device
  2026-06-16 · <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v1 17/18] Kconfig: drivers: restyle remaining
  2026-06-10 · Johan Jonker <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH v2 2/6] drivers: block: Introduce blk_flush()/blk_dflush()
  2026-05-29 · <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH v1 2/5] drivers: nvme: Implement NVMe flush command (0x0)
  2026-05-28 · <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH 04/13] blk: Use hex indices for the device name
  2026-05-27 · Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
• COLD36d [PATCH 2/5] block: ide: Drop empty bootdev_ops structure
  2026-05-19 · Tom Rini <hidden>
• COLD40d [PATCH 2/2] block: rockchip: Staticize and constify driver ops
  2026-05-07 · Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org>
• COLD40d [PATCH 1/2] block: ide: Staticize and constify driver ops
  2026-05-07 · Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org>
• STALE81d [PATCH] global: Correct duplicate U_BOOT_DRIVER entry names
  2026-03-23 · Tom Rini <hidden>
• STALE89d [PATCH] SPL: Rework logic around SPL_BLK_FS (and SPL_NVME)
  2026-03-17 · Tom Rini <hidden>
• STALE130d [PATCH v2 14/14] treewide: Clean up DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR usage
  2026-02-09 · Peng Fan (OSS) <hidden>
• STALE143d [PATCH RESEND 14/14] treewide: Clean up DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR usage
  2026-02-03 · Peng Fan (OSS) <hidden>
• STALE163d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 2/2] dm: core: Default to using DEVRES outside of xPL
  2025-12-27 · Tom Rini <hidden>
• STALE163d [PATCH 3/3] dm: core: Default to using DEVRES outside of xPL
  2025-12-19 · Tom Rini <hidden>
• STALE232d [PATCH v2] block: typo 'to be write'
  2025-11-05 · Heinrich Schuchardt <hidden>
• STALE235d [PATCH 1/1] block: type 'to be write'
  2025-11-04 · Heinrich Schuchardt <hidden>
• STALE262d [PATCH] Kconfig: Make further use of testing for !COMPILE_TEST
  2025-09-25 · Tom Rini <hidden>
• STALE339d [PATCH] block: Remove blk_find_first/next
  2025-07-17 · Greg Malysa <hidden>
• STALE338d [PATCH v3 1/2] block: Remove unreachable code
  2025-07-16 · Andrew Goodbody <hidden>
• STALE348d [PATCH v2 1/2] block: Remove unreachable code
  2025-07-15 · Andrew Goodbody <hidden>
• STALE348d [PATCH] block: Remove unreachable code
  2025-07-14 · Andrew Goodbody <hidden>
• STALE351d [PATCH] block: sandbox: Add support for SYS_64BIT_LBA
  2025-07-04 · Tom Rini <hidden>
• STALE395d [PATCH 2/4] efi: Rename CONFIG_EFI to CONFIG_EFI_CLIENT
  2025-05-28 · Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
• STALE396d [PATCH 17/27] efi: Add a bootdev for EFI media
  2025-05-28 · Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
• STALE396d [PATCH 14/27] efi: Rename the media device
  2025-05-28 · Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
• STALE395d [PATCH 05/10] efi: Rename CONFIG_EFI to CONFIG_EFI_CLIENT
  2025-05-23 · Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
• STALE437d [PATCH v2 3/3] block: use part_get_info_cached() API when scanning partitions
  2025-04-08 · Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>

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.

• STALE163d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 2/2] dm: core: Default to using DEVRES outside of xPL
  2025-12-27 · Tom Rini <hidden> · 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.

• STALE130d [PATCH v2 14/14] treewide: Clean up DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR usage
  2026-02-09 · Peng Fan (OSS) <hidden>