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)

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

Recent patches

Most-recent 6 patches in this subsystem on linux-trace-kernel, ordered by date desc.

HOTtoday IN LINUX-NEXT: 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>
COOLING5d REVIEWED: 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>
COOLING14d [PATCH 18/39] fbdev: defio: assert FBINFO_VIRTFB, drop VM_IO, add VM_MIXEDMAP
2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
STALE838d [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string()
2024-06-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
STALE992d [PATCH 21/22] fbdev/fsl-diu-fb: mark wr_reg_wa() static
2023-11-08 · Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
STALE1224d [PATCH v10 05/13] kbuild: remove MODULE_LICENSE/AUTHOR/DESCRIPTION in non-modules
2022-12-05 · Nick Alcock <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.

COOLING5d REVIEWED: 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> · 1 Reviewed-by