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)

• Philippe Simons <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-05-10

Recent patches

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

• COOLING7d [PATCH v4 2/2] backlight: Add SY7758 6-channel High Efficiency LED Driver support
  2026-05-21 · Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v3 2/2] backlight: Add SY7758 6-channel High Efficiency LED Driver support
  2026-05-19 · Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 5/6] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Set initial mapping mode from DT
  2026-05-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 6/6] video: leds: backlight: lm3533: Support getting LED sources from DT
  2026-05-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v1 2/6] mfd: lm3533: Convert to use OF bindings
  2026-05-17 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 2/2] backlight: sy7758: add Silergy SY7758 backlight driver
  2026-05-10 · Alexandre Hamamdjian via B4 Relay <devnull+azkali.limited.gmail.com@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v2 2/2] backlight: Add SY7758 6-channel High Efficiency LED Driver support
  2026-04-30 · Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
• COLD28d [PATCH 2/2] backlight: Add SY7758 6-channel High Efficiency LED Driver support
  2026-04-28 · Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
• COOLING7d 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>
• STALE84d [PATCH v7 2/4] backlight: add max25014atg backlight
  2026-01-23 · Maud Spierings via B4 Relay <devnull+maudspierings.gocontroll.com@kernel.org>
• STALE114d [PATCH v2 2/2] backlight: gpio: add support for multiple GPIOs for backlight control
  2026-01-20 · Sudarshan Shetty <hidden>
• STALE127d Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] backlight: gpio: add support for multiple GPIOs for backlight control
  2026-01-20 · <hidden>
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 4/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Change PM8950 WLED configurations
  2026-01-16 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden>
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 2/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Support ovp values for PMI8994
  2026-01-16 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden>
• STALE127d Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] backlight: gpio: add support for multiple GPIOs for backlight control
  2026-01-13 · <hidden>
• STALE138d [PATCH v2 4/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix ovp values for PMI8950
  2026-01-08 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden>
• STALE138d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Support ovp values for PMI8994
  2026-01-08 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden>
• STALE140d [PATCH 2/5] backlight: qcom-wled: Support ovp values for PMI8950
  2026-01-07 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden>
• STALE127d [PATCH v1 2/2] backlight: gpio: add support for multiple GPIOs for backlight control
  2026-01-05 · Sudarshan Shetty <hidden>
• STALE133d [PATCH v6 2/4] backlight: add max25014atg backlight
  2025-12-01 · Maud Spierings via B4 Relay <devnull+maudspierings.gocontroll.com@kernel.org>
• STALE195d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 2/2] backlight: aw99706: Add support for Awinic AW99706 backlight
  2025-11-09 · Junjie Cao <caojunjie650@gmail.com>
• STALE198d [PATCH v5 2/4] backlight: add max25014atg backlight
  2025-11-07 · Maud Spierings via B4 Relay <devnull+maudspierings.gocontroll.com@kernel.org>
• STALE204d [PATCH v2 2/2] backlight: aw99706: Add support for Awinic AW99706 backlight
  2025-11-03 · Junjie Cao <caojunjie650@gmail.com>
• STALE210d [PATCH 2/2] backlight: aw99706: Add support for Awinic AW99706 backlight
  2025-10-26 · Junjie Cao <caojunjie650@gmail.com>
• STALE230d [PATCH v4 2/4] backlight: add max25014atg backlight
  2025-10-09 · Maud Spierings via B4 Relay <devnull+maudspierings.gocontroll.com@kernel.org>
• STALE233d [PATCH v3 2/4] backlight: add max25014atg backlight
  2025-09-11 · Maud Spierings via B4 Relay <devnull+maudspierings.gocontroll.com@kernel.org>
• STALE279d [PATCH v2 2/4] backlight: add max25014atg backlight
  2025-08-19 · Maud Spierings via B4 Relay <devnull+maudspierings.gocontroll.com@kernel.org>
• STALE202d [PATCH 2/2] backlight: ktd2801: Depend on GPIOLIB
  2025-07-29 · Duje Mihanović <duje@dujemihanovic.xyz>
• STALE281d [PATCH 2/4] backlight: add max25014atg backlight
  2025-07-25 · Maud Spierings via B4 Relay <devnull+maudspierings.gocontroll.com@kernel.org>
• STALE404d [PATCH 4/4] backlight: ktz8866: add definitions to make it more readable
  2025-04-07 · Pengyu Luo <mitltlatltl@gmail.com>

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.

• STALE138d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Support ovp values for PMI8994
  2026-01-08 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 2/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Support ovp values for PMI8994
  2026-01-16 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 4/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Change PM8950 WLED configurations
  2026-01-16 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING7d 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