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] fbdev: pvr2fb: correct user pointer annotation and sentinel initializer
  2026-07-13 10:20 · 0 replies in 7d · Florian Fuchs <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: arkfb: Move a variable assignment behind a condition check in ics5342_init()
  2026-07-13 10:18 · 0 replies in 7d · Markus Elfring <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 00/13] mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 18:48 · 1 reply in 7d · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 00/16] ARM: omap3: pandora: Modernize audio and backlight to Device Tree to finally remove pdata-quirks
  2026-07-11 06:02 · 1 reply in 7d · H. Nikolaus Schaller <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH 0/2] Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-07-08 15:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <danielt@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-17
• Ijae Kim <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-07-01
• <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-26
• kernel test robot <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-07-13
• Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-02
• Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-25
• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-24

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH] fbdev: pvr2fb: correct user pointer annotation and sentinel initializer
  2026-07-13 · Florian Fuchs <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: arkfb: Move a variable assignment behind a condition check in ics5342_init()
  2026-07-13 · Markus Elfring <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 15/16] backlight: remove pandora_bl
  2026-07-11 · H. Nikolaus Schaller <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH] fbdev: udlfb: validate vendor descriptor items
  2026-07-06 · Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: sstfb: add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
  2026-07-05 · Pengpeng Hou <hidden>
• COOLING9d Re: Linux 7.1.3
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.38
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d Re: Linux 6.6.144
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d Re: Linux 6.12.95
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING9d Re: Linux 6.1.177
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.260
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.211
  2026-07-04 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] fb: omap2: dsi: do not copy isr table
  2026-07-02 · Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v3 3/3] fbdev: serialize mode sysfs access with lock_fb_info()
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v3 2/3] fbdev: clear fb_info->mode before deleting a videomode
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v3 1/3] fbdev: bound mode sysfs output to the sysfs buffer
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2 2/2] fbdev: serialize mode sysfs access with lock_fb_info()
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2 1/2] fbdev: bound mode sysfs output to the sysfs buffer
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH] fbdev: protect mode sysfs reads with lock_fb_info()
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 2/2] backlight: aw99706: Validate all DT property values consistently
  2026-07-01 · Junjie Cao <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH 1/2] backlight: aw99706: Fix DT property names to match binding
  2026-07-01 · Junjie Cao <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH] fbdev: tdfxfb: fix PCI enable cleanup with pcim_enable_device()
  2026-07-01 · Myeonghun Pak <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: uvesafb: unregister connector callback on init failure
  2026-07-01 · Myeonghun Pak <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 31/32] treewide: convert rdmsrq() from a macro to an inline function
  2026-06-29 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 22/32] fbdev/geode: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces
  2026-06-29 · Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
• COOLING14d [PATCH] fix: drivers/video: __screen_info_pci_dev: leaked pci_dev references in pci_get_base_class loop
  2026-06-27 · WenTao Liang <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v2] fbdev: fix use-after-free in store_modes()
  2026-06-26 · Ian Bridges <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.

• STALE185d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Support ovp values for PMI8994
  2026-01-08 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 2/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Support ovp values for PMI8994
  2026-01-16 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 4/7] backlight: qcom-wled: Change PM8950 WLED configurations
  2026-01-16 · Barnabás Czémán <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE134d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v10 2/8] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part two)
  2026-02-18 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 5.15.y] fbcon: Set fb_display[i]->mode to NULL when the mode is released
  2026-03-31 · Johnny Hao <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD54d 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
• STALE67d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v2 1/2] backlight: cgbc: Remove redundant X86 dependency
  2026-04-27 · Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD59d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-5.10] fbdev: ipu-v3: clean up kernel-doc warnings
  2026-05-11 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING12d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-5.10] fbdev: ipu-v3: clean up kernel-doc warnings
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v4 11/14] video: backlight: lm3533_bl: Improve logic of sysfs functions
  2026-06-06 · Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden> · 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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.63
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE207d Re: Linux 6.18.2
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.17.13
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE202d [PATCH RFC v5 2/6] gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up
  2025-12-19 · Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
• STALE175d [PATCH 01/12] video/aperture: Add sysfb restore on DRM probe failure
  2025-12-29 · Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@broadcom.com>
• STALE192d [PATCH 2/6] video/logo: add a type parameter to the logo makefile function
  2025-12-30 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE192d [PATCH 3/6] video/logo: allow custom logo
  2025-12-30 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE186d [PATCH v2 1/6] video/logo: remove orphan .pgm Makefile rule
  2026-01-01 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE186d [PATCH v2 2/6] video/logo: add a type parameter to the logo makefile function
  2026-01-01 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE186d [PATCH v2 3/6] video/logo: allow custom logo
  2026-01-01 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>