tty layer and serial drivers · Supported

Maintainers

• M Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• M Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/
• F Documentation/driver-api/serial/
• F drivers/tty/
• F include/linux/selection.h
• F include/linux/serial.h
• F include/linux/serial_core.h
• F include/linux/sysrq.h
• F include/linux/tty*.h
• F include/linux/vt.h
• F include/linux/vt_*.h
• F include/uapi/linux/serial.h
• F include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h
• F include/uapi/linux/tty.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD30d [PATCH v3 2/7] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COLD44d [PATCH v2 2/6] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-05-24 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COLD53d [PATCH 2/6] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-05-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE163d [PATCH] tty: synclink_gt: remove broken driver
  2026-01-29 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• STALE774d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v5 2/3] VT: Add KDFONTINFO ioctl
  2024-04-17 · Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
• STALE774d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v4 2/3] VT: Add KDFONTINFO ioctl
  2024-04-02 · Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
• STALE774d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [RESEND PATCH v3 1/2] VT: Add KDFONTINFO ioctl
  2024-04-02 · Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
• STALE774d [PATCH v3 1/2] VT: Add KDFONTINFO ioctl
  2024-03-12 · legion@kernel.org
• STALE774d [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] VT: Add KD_FONT_OP_GET_INFO operation
  2024-02-26 · Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
• STALE1391d LANDED [PATCH v9 5/6] serial: Support for RS-485 multipoint addresses
  2022-06-24 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1483d [PATCH v8 5/6] serial: Support for RS-485 multipoint addresses
  2022-06-20 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1487d [PATCH v7 5/6] serial: Support for RS-485 multipoint addresses
  2022-06-15 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1489d [PATCH v6 5/6] serial: Support for RS-485 multipoint addresses
  2022-06-13 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1538d [PATCH v5 06/10] serial: General support for multipoint addresses
  2022-04-26 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1538d [PATCH v5 05/10] serial: termbits: ADDRB to indicate 9th bit addressing mode
  2022-04-26 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1391d [PATCH v4 09/13] serial: General support for multipoint addresses
  2022-04-25 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1391d [PATCH v4 08/13] serial: termbits: ADDRB to indicate 9th bit addressing mode
  2022-04-25 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1539d Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] Add RS485 support to DW UART
  2022-04-22 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1539d Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] Add RS485 support to DW UART
  2022-04-22 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1539d [PATCH v3 08/12] serial: General support for multipoint addresses
  2022-04-11 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1539d [PATCH v3 07/12] serial: termbits: ADDRB to indicate 9th bit addressing mode
  2022-04-11 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1557d [PATCH v2 08/12] serial: General support for multipoint addresses
  2022-04-04 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1557d [PATCH v2 07/12] serial: termbits: ADDRB to indicate 9th bit addressing mode
  2022-04-04 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1585d [RFC PATCH 5/7] serial: termbits: ADDRB to indicate 9th bit addressing mode
  2022-03-02 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE1585d [RFC PATCH 6/7] serial: General support for multipoint addresses
  2022-03-02 · Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
• STALE2264d [PATCH v3 6/7] n_tty: ->ops->write: Cut core logic out to a separate function
  2020-04-30 · Arseny Maslennikov <hidden>
• STALE2264d [PATCH v3 7/7] n_tty: Provide an informational line on VSTATUS receipt
  2020-04-30 · Arseny Maslennikov <hidden>
• STALE2264d [PATCH v3 3/7] n_tty: Send SIGINFO to fg pgrp on status request character
  2020-04-30 · Arseny Maslennikov <hidden>
• STALE2468d [PATCH -next] treewide: remove unused argument in lock_release()
  2019-09-19 · Qian Cai <hidden>
• STALE1649d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH V40 18/29] lockdown: Lock down TIOCSSERIAL
  2019-08-20 · Matthew Garrett <hidden>

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.

• COLD30d [PATCH v3 2/7] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>