tty layer and serial drivers · Supported

Maintainers

• M Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• M Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/
• F Documentation/driver-api/serial/
• F drivers/tty/
• F include/linux/selection.h
• F include/linux/serial.h
• F include/linux/serial_core.h
• F include/linux/sysrq.h
• F include/linux/tty*.h
• F include/linux/vt.h
• F include/linux/vt_*.h
• F include/uapi/linux/serial.h
• F include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h
• F include/uapi/linux/tty.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING7d [PATCH v16 1/3] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-07-18 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v15 1/3] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-07-18 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v14 1/3] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-07-15 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH v13 1/3] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-07-12 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 21 (20M) [PATCH v2 2/2] dt-bindings: Drop incorrect usage of double '::'
  2026-06-23 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH 2/2] dt-bindings: Drop incorrect usage of double '::'
  2026-06-22 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• COLD32d [PATCH v12 1/3] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-06-03 · Markus Probst via B4 Relay <devnull+markus.probst.posteo.de@kernel.org>
• COLD60d [PATCH v11 1/3] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-05-30 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• STALE62d [PATCH v10 3/5] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-05-30 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• STALE62d [PATCH v9 1/3] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-05-30 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• STALE62d [PATCH v8 3/5] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-05-30 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH 10/11] treewide: Manually convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD51d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE81d [PATCH v7 3/4] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-04-29 · Markus Probst via B4 Relay <devnull+markus.probst.posteo.de@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] serial: 8250: Clear CON_PRINTBUFFER on port re-registration
  2026-04-28 · Fushuai Wang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6 3/4] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-04-27 · Markus Probst via B4 Relay <devnull+markus.probst.posteo.de@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v5 3/4] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-04-20 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• STALE109d [PATCH v4 3/4] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-04-11 · Markus Probst via B4 Relay <devnull+markus.probst.posteo.de@kernel.org>
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH v7 4/8] dt-bindings: serial: Document the graph port
  2026-03-26 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org>
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 3/8] serdev: Do not return -ENODEV from of_serdev_register_devices() if external connector is used
  2026-03-26 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org>
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 2/8] serdev: Add an API to find the serdev controller associated with the devicetree node
  2026-03-26 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH v6 4/9] dt-bindings: serial: Document the graph port
  2026-03-17 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 3/9] serdev: Do not return -ENODEV from of_serdev_register_devices() if external connector is used
  2026-03-17 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org>
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 2/9] serdev: Add an API to find the serdev controller associated with the devicetree node
  2026-03-17 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org>
• STALE133d [PATCH v3 3/4] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-03-13 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• STALE136d REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH v5 4/9] dt-bindings: serial: Document the graph port
  2026-02-24 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org>
• STALE136d [PATCH v5 2/9] serdev: Add an API to find the serdev controller associated with the devicetree node
  2026-02-24 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org>
• STALE136d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 3/9] serdev: Do not return -ENODEV from of_serdev_register_devices() if external connector is used
  2026-02-24 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org>
• STALE182d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 1/6] dt-bindings: serial: google,goldfish-tty: Convert to DT schema
  2026-01-13 · Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
• STALE199d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 1/6] dt-bindings: serial: google,goldfish-tty: Convert to DT schema
  2026-01-12 · Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@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.

• STALE136d REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH v5 4/9] dt-bindings: serial: Document the graph port
  2026-02-24 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE136d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 3/9] serdev: Do not return -ENODEV from of_serdev_register_devices() if external connector is used
  2026-02-24 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH v6 4/9] dt-bindings: serial: Document the graph port
  2026-03-17 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 3/9] serdev: Do not return -ENODEV from of_serdev_register_devices() if external connector is used
  2026-03-17 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD49d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 2/9] serdev: Add an API to find the serdev controller associated with the devicetree node
  2026-03-17 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 8 (7M) [PATCH v7 4/8] dt-bindings: serial: Document the graph port
  2026-03-26 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 3/8] serdev: Do not return -ENODEV from of_serdev_register_devices() if external connector is used
  2026-03-26 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 2/8] serdev: Add an API to find the serdev controller associated with the devicetree node
  2026-03-26 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org> · 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.

• STALE190d [PATCH v3 09/14] dt-bindings: serial: Document the graph port
  2026-01-10 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org>
• STALE190d [PATCH v3 08/14] serdev: Add support for swnode based driver matching and uevent/modalias
  2026-01-10 · Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay <devnull+manivannan.sadhasivam.oss.qualcomm.com@kernel.org>
• STALE133d [PATCH v3 3/4] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-03-13 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• STALE109d [PATCH v4 3/4] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-04-11 · Markus Probst via B4 Relay <devnull+markus.probst.posteo.de@kernel.org>
• STALE102d [PATCH v5 3/4] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-04-20 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6 3/4] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-04-27 · Markus Probst via B4 Relay <devnull+markus.probst.posteo.de@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] serial: 8250: Clear CON_PRINTBUFFER on port re-registration
  2026-04-28 · Fushuai Wang <hidden>
• STALE81d [PATCH v7 3/4] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-04-29 · Markus Probst via B4 Relay <devnull+markus.probst.posteo.de@kernel.org>
• STALE62d [PATCH v10 3/5] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-05-30 · Markus Probst <hidden>
• COLD32d [PATCH v12 1/3] rust: add basic serial device bus abstractions
  2026-06-03 · Markus Probst via B4 Relay <devnull+markus.probst.posteo.de@kernel.org>