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)

• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/2] Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-08 15:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 00/10] vga_switcheroo, drm: Push fbcon handling into DRM clients
  2026-07-07 13:57 · 1 reply in 7d · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• WARM2d [PATCH] fbdev: udlfb: validate vendor descriptor items
  2026-07-06 09:30 · 0 replies in 7d · Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: sstfb: add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
  2026-07-05 00:15 · 0 replies in 7d · Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] fb: omap2: dsi: do not copy isr table
  2026-07-02 15:50 · 0 replies in 7d · Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <danielt@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-17
• Ijae Kim <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-26
• <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-02
• Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-25
• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-24
• Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-16

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 10/10] vga-switcheroo: Remove unused interfaces
  2026-07-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• WARM2d [PATCH] fbdev: udlfb: validate vendor descriptor items
  2026-07-06 · Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: sstfb: add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
  2026-07-05 · Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH] fb: omap2: dsi: do not copy isr table
  2026-07-02 · Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v3 3/3] fbdev: serialize mode sysfs access with lock_fb_info()
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v3 2/3] fbdev: clear fb_info->mode before deleting a videomode
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v3 1/3] fbdev: bound mode sysfs output to the sysfs buffer
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v2 2/2] fbdev: serialize mode sysfs access with lock_fb_info()
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v2 1/2] fbdev: bound mode sysfs output to the sysfs buffer
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH] fbdev: protect mode sysfs reads with lock_fb_info()
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH] fbdev: tdfxfb: fix PCI enable cleanup with pcim_enable_device()
  2026-07-01 · Myeonghun Pak <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: uvesafb: unregister connector callback on init failure
  2026-07-01 · Myeonghun Pak <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 31/32] treewide: convert rdmsrq() from a macro to an inline function
  2026-06-29 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH 22/32] fbdev/geode: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces
  2026-06-29 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH] fix: drivers/video: __screen_info_pci_dev: leaked pci_dev references in pci_get_base_class loop
  2026-06-27 · WenTao Liang <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v2] fbdev: fix use-after-free in store_modes()
  2026-06-26 · Ian Bridges <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of fbcon_do_set_font()
  2026-06-25 · Mingyu Wang <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH] fbdev: Fix fb_new_modelist to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var
  2026-06-25 · Ian Bridges <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH] fbdev: goldfishfb: fail pan display on base-update timeout
  2026-06-25 · Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH] fbcon: fix NULL pointer dereference for a console without vc_data
  2026-06-24 · Ian Bridges <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH] fbdev: via: return an error when DMA copy times out
  2026-06-24 · Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of fbcon_do_set_font()
  2026-06-24 · <hidden>
• COLD16d LANDED [PATCH] fbdev: fix use-after-free of fb_display[i].mode in store_modes()
  2026-06-22 · Ian Bridges <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH] video: hpfb: Unregister DIO driver on init failure
  2026-06-22 · Haoxiang Li <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH] video: fbdev: pm2fb: unwind WC setup on probe failure
  2026-06-21 · Haoxiang Li <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH] fbcon: Avoid OOB font access if console rotation fails
  2026-06-18 · HAN Ruidong via B4 Relay <devnull+rdhan.smu.edu.sg@kernel.org>
• COLD15d [PATCH v1] fbdev: vga16fb: Drop unused assignment of platform_device_id driver data
  2026-06-17 · Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v5 08/14] mfd: lm3533: Convert to use OF bindings
  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.

• STALE180d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Support ovp values for PMI8994
  2026-01-08 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE112d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 2/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Support ovp values for PMI8994
  2026-01-16 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE112d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 4/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Change PM8950 WLED configurations
  2026-01-16 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE129d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v10 2/8] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part two)
  2026-02-18 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD49d 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
• STALE62d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 1/2] backlight: cgbc: Remove redundant X86 dependency
  2026-04-27 · Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD54d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-5.10] fbdev: ipu-v3: clean up kernel-doc warnings
  2026-05-11 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-5.10] fbdev: ipu-v3: clean up kernel-doc warnings
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD26d 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
• COLD26d 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

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.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: geode: gxfb: Use devm_request_mem_region
  2025-12-13 · Swaraj Gaikwad <hidden>
• STALE197d [PATCH RFC v5 2/6] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-19 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE170d [PATCH 01/12] video/aperture: Add sysfb restore on DRM probe failure
  2025-12-29 · Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>
• STALE187d [PATCH 2/6] video/logo: add a type parameter to the logo makefile function
  2025-12-30 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE187d [PATCH 3/6] video/logo: allow custom logo
  2025-12-30 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE181d [PATCH v2 1/6] video/logo: remove orphan .pgm Makefile rule
  2026-01-01 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE181d [PATCH v2 2/6] video/logo: add a type parameter to the logo makefile function
  2026-01-01 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE181d [PATCH v2 3/6] video/logo: allow custom logo
  2026-01-01 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE181d [PATCH v2 4/6] newport_con: depend on LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224 instead of LOGO_SGI_CLUT224
  2026-01-01 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5.10.y] fbcon: Fix the issue of uninitialized charcount in the remaining consoles
  2026-01-05 · Luo Gengkun <hidden>