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 v3 00/40] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
  2026-09-17 16:32 · 1 reply in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v2 00/40] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
  2026-09-14 15:08 · 1 reply in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-17

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 19/40] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-17 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday IN LINUX-NEXT: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2 19/40] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM3d [PATCH 18/39] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] treewide: fix occured typo in drivers
  2026-04-18 · wooridge <hidden>
• STALE1323d [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls
  2023-01-25 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• STALE1431d REVIEWED: 28 (27M) [PATCH v6 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1439d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 5/7] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1440d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 4/6] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1440d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1442d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE1436d [PATCH v1 3/5] treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• STALE2191d [trivial PATCH] treewide: Convert switch/case fallthrough; to break;
  2020-09-09 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE2576d [PATCH v3 20/41] fbdev/pvr2fb: convert put_page() to put_user_page*()
  2019-08-07 · <hidden>
• STALE2593d [PATCH v2 18/34] fbdev/pvr2fb: convert put_page() to put_user_page*()
  2019-08-04 · <hidden>
• STALE2596d [PATCH 18/34] fbdev/pvr2fb: convert put_page() to put_user_page*()
  2019-08-02 · <hidden>
• STALE2719d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH V3 3/7] mm/gup: Change GUP fast to use flags rather than a write 'bool'
  2019-03-28 · <hidden>
• STALE2733d [RESEND 3/7] mm/gup: Change GUP fast to use flags rather than a write 'bool'
  2019-03-18 · <hidden>
• STALE2759d [RESEND PATCH 3/7] mm/gup: Change GUP fast to use flags rather than a write 'bool'
  2019-02-20 · <hidden>
• STALE2773d [PATCH V2 3/7] mm/gup: Change GUP fast to use flags rather than a write 'bool'
  2019-02-13 · <hidden>
• STALE2866d [RFC] mm: Replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE
  2018-11-12 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• STALE2880d [PATCH v2 05/17] compat_ioctl: move more drivers to generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg
  2018-09-12 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
• STALE2992d [PATCH v2 6/6] mm: page_mkclean, ttu: handle pinned pages
  2018-07-02 · <hidden>
• STALE3412d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v11 10/12] uapi: export all headers under uapi directories
  2017-03-27 · Nicolas Dichtel <hidden>
• STALE3412d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v10 10/11] uapi: export all headers under uapi directories
  2017-03-14 · Nicolas Dichtel <hidden>
• STALE3412d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v9 10/11] uapi: export all headers under uapi directories
  2017-03-02 · Nicolas Dichtel <hidden>
• STALE3412d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v8 10/11] uapi: export all headers under uapi directories
  2017-02-28 · Nicolas Dichtel <hidden>
• STALE3412d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v3 7/8] uapi: export all headers under uapi directories
  2017-01-13 · Nicolas Dichtel <hidden>
• STALE3412d [PATCH v2 7/7] uapi: export all headers under uapi directories
  2017-01-06 · Nicolas Dichtel <hidden>
• STALE3412d [PATCH] uapi: use wildcards to list files
  2017-01-03 · Nicolas Dichtel <hidden>
• STALE3614d [PATCH 03/10] mm: replace get_user_pages_unlocked() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  2016-10-13 · Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>

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] treewide: fix occured typo in drivers
  2026-04-18 · wooridge <hidden>