framebuffer layer · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

Paths

• F Documentation/fb/
• F drivers/video/
• F include/linux/fb.h
• F include/uapi/linux/fb.h
• F include/uapi/video/
• F include/video/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH v4 00/38] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
  2026-10-03 16:39 · 1 reply in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-10-03

Recent patches

Most-recent 10 patches in this subsystem on bpf, ordered by date desc.

• WARM1d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v4 18/38] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-10-03 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d IN LINUX-NEXT: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 19/40] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 19/40] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD21d [PATCH 18/39] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE1341d [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE2208d [trivial PATCH] treewide: Convert switch/case fallthrough; to break;
  2020-09-09 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE2321d [PATCH 20/23] maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault
  2020-05-21 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2329d [PATCH 17/20] maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault
  2020-05-19 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2330d [PATCH 16/18] maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault
  2020-05-13 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE2645d [PATCH v1 11/22] docs: admin-guide: add .rst files from the main dir
  2019-06-18 · Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.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.

• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 19/40] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by