staging subsystem · Supported

Maintainers

• M Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Paths

• F drivers/staging/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• kernel test robot <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-24

Recent patches

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

• COOLING8d [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix unaligned access and txbuf safety issues
  2026-06-25 · suryasaimadhu <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix unaligned vmem writes when txbuf is byte-offset
  2026-06-25 · suryasaimadhu <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix unaligned access and buffer size when startbyte is used
  2026-06-25 · suryasaimadhu <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH] staging: fbtft: replace empty modifier argument with no-op macro
  2026-06-25 · suryasaimadhu <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: fix const pointer declaration
  2026-06-25 · suryasaimadhu <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: make g_fbmode array const pointer const
  2026-06-24 · Shravya <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] staging: fbtft: use ARRAY_SIZE() in NUMARGS macro
  2026-06-24 · Joyeta Modak <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] staging: sm750fb: rename CamelCase pvMem and pvReg
  2026-06-24 · Arnav Kapoor <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] staging: sm750fb: rename CamelCase pvMem and pvReg
  2026-06-24 · Arnav Kapoor <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] staging: sm750fb: fix remaining CamelCase issues
  2026-06-24 · Arnav Kapoor <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: rename variables to avoid CamelCase
  2026-06-23 · André Moreira <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v2 4/4] staging: fbtft: remove fb_ssd1351 driver
  2026-06-22 · Amit Barzilai <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix parenthesis alignment in fb_tinylcd.c
  2026-06-21 · Aditya Chari <hidden>
• COOLING10d [staging] staging: sm750fb: fix remaining CamelCase issues
  2026-06-21 · Arnav Kapoor <hidden>
• COOLING10d [staging] staging: sm750fb: rename pvMem to vram and pvReg to reg
  2026-06-21 · Arnav Kapoor <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: make g_fbmode array const
  2026-06-21 · Arnav Kapoor <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: convert camelCase parameters to snake_case
  2026-06-15 · Noah Adkins <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH v2] staging: fbtft: use %pe for backlight errors
  2026-06-14 · Keefe Reeves <hidden>
• COLD19d [PATCH] staging: fbtft: use %pe for backlight errors
  2026-06-14 · Keefe Reeves <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH] staging: vme_user: remove obsolete VMEbus driver and Kconfig entry
  2026-06-13 · Gabriel Ramos Barbosa Mota <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: fix const pointer array declaration
  2026-06-12 · Jack Lee <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: fix CamelCase variable name Bpp to bpp
  2026-06-11 · Siddhesh Sable <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: fix CamelCase variable name Bpp to bpp
  2026-06-11 · Xebec77 <hidden>
• COLD23d [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix typo in comment in fb_upd161704.c
  2026-06-11 · Tomasz Unger <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: make g_fbmode array const
  2026-06-09 · Brock Haftner <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH 1/2] staging: fbtft: fb_ra8875: prefer usleep_range over udelay
  2026-06-07 · Georgii Druzhinin <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH 2/2] staging: fbtft: fbtft-bus: remove prohibited space before close parenthesis
  2026-06-07 · Georgii Druzhinin <hidden>
• COLD31d [PATCH] staging: fbtft: Use sysfs_emit_at() to print to sysfs file
  2026-06-03 · Dan Carpenter <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: Add missing Kconfig dependency
  2026-06-02 · Rong Zhang <hidden>
• COLD33d [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: remove duplicate init_status structure
  2026-05-30 · Hungyu Lin <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.

• STALE156d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 1/2] staging: fbtft: Fix build failure when CONFIG_FB_DEVICE=n
  2026-01-22 · Chintan Patel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE156d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v8 2/2] staging: fbtft: Make framebuffer registration message debug-only
  2026-01-22 · Chintan Patel <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] staging: fbtft: Optimize partial write()
  2026-02-16 · Nam Cao <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD44d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-5.10] staging: fbtft: fix unchecked write return value in fb_agm1264k-fl
  2026-04-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Acked-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] staging: sm750fb: Rename CamelCase variable fixId to fix_id
  2025-12-21 · Tim Wassink <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] staging/sm750fb: remove outdated TODO lines
  2025-12-22 · William Hansen-Baird <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: rename fixId to fix_id
  2025-12-23 · Tejas Chaudhari <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: fix typo 'resetted' -> 'reset'
  2026-01-03 · Akiyoshi Kurita <hidden>
• STALE179d [PATCH v1 3/4] staging: fbtft: ssd1331: send gamma table via fbtft_write_buf_dc()
  2026-01-04 · Sun Jian <hidden>
• STALE174d [PATCH 2/3] staging: rtl8723bs: remove trailing whitespace
  2026-01-07 · Lorenzo Simonelli <hidden>
• STALE174d [PATCH 3/3] staging: rtl8723bs: remove unnecessary parentheses and true comparisons
  2026-01-07 · Lorenzo Simonelli <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: rename initParm to init_parm
  2026-01-27 · Madhumitha Sundar <hidden>
• STALE151d [PATCH v2] staging: sm750fb: rename Bpp to bytes_per_pixel
  2026-02-02 · yehudis9982 <hidden>
• STALE151d [PATCH v2] staging: sm750fb: rename Bpp to bytes_per_pixel
  2026-02-02 · yehudis9982 <hidden>