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

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <danielt@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-26

Recent patches

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

• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 2/2] backlight: Add support for Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-26 · Wim de With <hidden>
• COLD20d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3 2/2] backlight: Add support for Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-16 · Wim de With <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH v2 2/2] backlight: Add support for Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-12 · Wim de With <hidden>
• COLD28d Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] video: logo: allow the boot logo to come from the device tree
  2026-08-08 · Helge Deller <deller@kernel.org>
• COLD26d [PATCH 2/2] backlight: Add support for Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-06 · Wim de With <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2 6/6] video: logo: add ppmtodtlogo host tool
  2026-08-04 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2 5/6] video: logo: allow the boot logo to come from a reserved memory region
  2026-08-04 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2 3/6] fbdev: honour the device tree boot logo placement properties
  2026-08-04 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2 2/6] video: logo: allow the boot logo to come from the device tree
  2026-08-04 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD18d [RFC PATCH 6/6] video: logo: add ppmtodtlogo host tool
  2026-07-31 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD18d [RFC PATCH 5/6] video: logo: allow the boot logo to come from a reserved memory region
  2026-07-31 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD18d [RFC PATCH 3/6] fbdev: honour the device tree boot logo placement properties
  2026-07-31 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD18d [RFC PATCH 2/6] video: logo: allow the boot logo to come from the device tree
  2026-07-31 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD36d [PATCH v2 1/2] fbdev: ssd1307fb: add support for Sino Wealth SH1107 controller
  2026-07-31 · Jakub Turek <hidden>
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 12/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Set initial mapping mode from DT
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 13/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Implement backlight_scale property
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH v6 08/14] mfd: lm3533: Convert to use OF bindings
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v6 07/14] mfd: lm3533: Use dev_groups in struct device_driver
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 11/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Improve logic of sysfs functions
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH v6 04/14] mfd: lm3533: Pass only regmap and light sensor presence to child devices
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 02/14] mfd: lm3533: Remove driver specific regmap wrappers
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD38d [PATCH 1/2] fbdev: ssd1307fb: add support for Sino Wealth SH1107 controller
  2026-07-31 · Jakub Turek <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH 15/16] backlight: remove pandora_bl
  2026-07-11 · H. Nikolaus Schaller <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 08/14] mfd: lm3533: Convert to use OF bindings
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 14/14] video: leds: backlight: lm3533: Support getting LED sources from DT
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 13/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Implement backlight_scale property
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 12/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Set initial mapping mode from DT
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 11/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Improve logic of sysfs functions
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 07/14] mfd: lm3533: Use dev_groups in struct device_driver
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 04/14] mfd: lm3533: Pass only regmap and light sensor presence to child devices
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <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.

• STALE110d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v8 2/4] backlight: add max25014atg backlight
  2026-04-07 · Maud Spierings via B4 Relay <devnull+maudspierings.gocontroll.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE86d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 11/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Improve logic of sysfs functions
  2026-06-06 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE86d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 12/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Set initial mapping mode from DT
  2026-06-06 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE86d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 13/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Implement backlight_scale property
  2026-06-06 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 11/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Improve logic of sysfs functions
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 12/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Set initial mapping mode from DT
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 13/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Implement backlight_scale property
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 11/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Improve logic of sysfs functions
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 13/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Implement backlight_scale property
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v6 12/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Set initial mapping mode from DT
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <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.

• COLD18d [RFC PATCH 2/6] video: logo: allow the boot logo to come from the device tree
  2026-07-31 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD18d [RFC PATCH 3/6] fbdev: honour the device tree boot logo placement properties
  2026-07-31 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD18d [RFC PATCH 5/6] video: logo: allow the boot logo to come from a reserved memory region
  2026-07-31 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD18d [RFC PATCH 6/6] video: logo: add ppmtodtlogo host tool
  2026-07-31 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2 5/6] video: logo: allow the boot logo to come from a reserved memory region
  2026-08-04 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• COLD28d [PATCH v2 6/6] video: logo: add ppmtodtlogo host tool
  2026-08-04 · Max Pedraza <hidden>