led subsystem · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
• M Pavel Machek <pavel@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/
• F Documentation/leds/
• F drivers/leds/
• F include/dt-bindings/leds/
• F include/linux/leds.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING9d [PATCH RFC 01/10] dt-bindings: backlight: add Kinetic KTD3136
  2026-09-11 · YİĞİTCAN KAVAKLI via B4 Relay<devnull+kavakliyigitcan.gmail.com@kernel.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH 11/14] mfd: remove unused wm8350 driver
  2026-09-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH 09/14] mfd: remove unused lm3533 driver
  2026-09-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH 07/14] mfd: remove unused lp8788 driver
  2026-09-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH 06/14] mfd: remove unused da903x driver
  2026-09-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COLD18d [PATCH 05/14] mfd: remove unused adp5520 driver
  2026-09-09 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
• COLD29d [PATCH v7 3/3] media: dvb-core: extirpate defective and unsafe ULE debug block
  2026-09-05 · Breno Rodrigues Alves <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH v6 4/4] tree-wide: purge verified remaining legacy ghost options
  2026-09-05 · Breno Rodrigues Alves <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5] Kconfig: fix typos in core makefiles and purge defective DVB debug (v5)
  2026-09-05 · Breno Rodrigues Alves <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH v4] Kconfig: fix typos in core makefiles/code and purge remaining ghosts (v4)
  2026-09-05 · Breno Rodrigues Alves <hidden>
• COLD39d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: backlight: Add Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-26 · Wim de With <hidden>
• COLD40d [PATCH 2/2] leds: lp8864: Register a backlight device
  2026-08-17 · "A. Sverdlin" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
• COLD47d [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: backlight: Add Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-16 · Wim de With <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: backlight: Add Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-12 · Wim de With <hidden>
• COLD54d [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: backlight: Add Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-06 · Wim de With <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH v6 08/14] mfd: lm3533: Convert to use OF bindings
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH v6 04/14] mfd: lm3533: Pass only regmap and light sensor presence to child devices
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD24d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 02/14] mfd: lm3533: Remove driver specific regmap wrappers
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD24d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v6 01/14] dt-bindings: leds: Document TI LM3533 LED controller
  2026-07-31 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5 08/14] mfd: lm3533: Convert to use OF bindings
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5 14/14] video: leds: backlight: lm3533: Support getting LED sources from DT
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD25d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v5 01/14] dt-bindings: leds: Document TI LM3533 LED controller
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5 04/14] mfd: lm3533: Pass only regmap and light sensor presence to child devices
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH v5 02/14] mfd: lm3533: Remove driver specific regmap wrappers
  2026-06-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• STALE96d [PATCH 2/3] leds: lp8864: Rename struct lp8864_led and local variables
  2026-06-15 · "A. Sverdlin" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
• STALE96d [PATCH 3/3] backlight: lp8864: Convert from LED to backlight class driver
  2026-06-15 · "A. Sverdlin" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
• STALE96d [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: backlight: ti,lp8864: Add backlight class properties
  2026-06-15 · "A. Sverdlin" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
• STALE114d [PATCH v4 14/14] video: leds: backlight: lm3533: Support getting LED sources from DT
  2026-06-06 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• STALE114d [PATCH v4 08/14] mfd: lm3533: Convert to use OF bindings
  2026-06-06 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• STALE114d [PATCH v4 04/14] mfd: lm3533: Pass only regmap and light sensor presence to child devices
  2026-06-06 · 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.

• STALE137d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v8 1/4] dt-bindings: backlight: Add max25014 support
  2026-04-07 · Maud Spierings via B4 Relay <devnull+maudspierings.gocontroll.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE138d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: leds: backlight: document the SY7758 6-channel High Efficiency LED Driver
  2026-04-30 · Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE128d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: leds: backlight: document the SY7758 6-channel High Efficiency LED Driver
  2026-05-19 · Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE136d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: leds: backlight: document the SY7758 6-channel High Efficiency LED Driver
  2026-05-21 · Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE94d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 1/2] dt-bindings: leds: backlight: document the SY7758 6-channel High Efficiency LED Driver
  2026-05-29 · Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD39d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: backlight: Add Orient Chip OCP8178
  2026-08-26 · Wim de With <hidden> · 2 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.

• STALE96d [PATCH 2/3] leds: lp8864: Rename struct lp8864_led and local variables
  2026-06-15 · "A. Sverdlin" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>