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 v4 0/4] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix OVP IRQ imbalance and start from the hardware state
  2026-09-21 10:46 · 3 replies in 7d · David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Linux 7.2.7
  2026-09-21 13:31 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Linux 6.18.53
  2026-09-21 13:31 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday Linux 6.12.111
  2026-09-21 13:31 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.12 0000/1102] 6.12.111-rc1 review
  2026-09-17 18:06 · 2 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 6.18 0000/1250] 6.18.53-rc1 review
  2026-09-17 17:05 · 2 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 0/4] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix OVP IRQ imbalance and start from the hardware state
  2026-09-14 18:14 · 3 replies in 7d · David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 0/3] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix OVP IRQ imbalance and start from the hardware state
  2026-09-14 17:43 · 2 replies in 7d · David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] fbdev: nvidia: Release write-combining handle on probe failure
  2026-09-15 00:54 · 0 replies in 7d · Myeonghun Pak <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: kyro: Release WC setup on registration failure
  2026-09-15 00:52 · 0 replies in 7d · Myeonghun Pak <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Ijae Kim <hidden>
  7 attestations (7 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-15
• Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
  7 attestations (7 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
  6 attestations (6 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-08
• Sam Ravnborg <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-08
• Sui Jingfeng <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-08
• Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <danielt@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
  2 attestations (1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-12
• Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-08
• <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-12

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday Re: Linux 7.2.7
  2026-09-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday Re: Linux 6.18.53
  2026-09-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.111
  2026-09-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 1/4] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix NULL pointer dereference in wled_remove()
  2026-09-21 · David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 3/4] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix unbalanced OVP IRQ enable at probe
  2026-09-21 · David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v4 2/4] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix WLED3 brightness register stride
  2026-09-21 · David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.12 0368/1102] fbdev: pm2fb: unwind WC setup on probe failure
  2026-09-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.12 0263/1102] fbcon: dont suspend/resume when vc is graphics mode
  2026-09-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 6.18 0472/1250] fbdev: pm2fb: unwind WC setup on probe failure
  2026-09-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 6.18 0369/1250] fbcon: dont suspend/resume when vc is graphics mode
  2026-09-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] fbdev: nvidia: Release write-combining handle on probe failure
  2026-09-15 · Myeonghun Pak <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fbdev: kyro: Release WC setup on registration failure
  2026-09-15 · Myeonghun Pak <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 3/4] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix unbalanced OVP IRQ enable at probe
  2026-09-14 · David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 1/4] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix NULL pointer dereference in PM callbacks
  2026-09-14 · David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 2/4] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix WLED3 brightness register stride
  2026-09-14 · David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 2/3] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix unbalanced OVP IRQ enable at probe
  2026-09-14 · David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@kernel.org>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 1/3] backlight: qcom-wled: Fix WLED3 brightness register stride
  2026-09-14 · David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.52
  2026-09-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING7d Re: Linux 6.12.110
  2026-09-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.157
  2026-09-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING7d Re: Linux 6.1.188
  2026-09-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.221
  2026-09-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.10.270
  2026-09-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] fbdev: udlfb: don't rebuild the mode list while the framebuffer is in use
  2026-09-12 · Xiang Mei <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 5.10 662/798] fbdev: kyro: Validate overlay viewport coordinates
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 5.15 766/935] fbdev: kyro: Validate overlay viewport coordinates
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.1 0946/1191] fbdev: kyro: Validate overlay viewport coordinates
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.1 0945/1191] fbdev: tdfxfb: fix PCI enable cleanup with pcim_enable_device()
  2026-09-12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] firmware: sysfb: Move bpp-depth calculation into screen_info helper
  2026-09-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• COOLING8d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.12.y 1/2] firmware: sysfb: Move bpp-depth calculation into screen_info helper
  2026-09-12 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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.

• 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
• STALE129d 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
• STALE129d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.18.y 1/2] fbcon: Rename struct fbcon_ops to struct fbcon_par
  2026-05-14 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD31d 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
• STALE87d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of fbcon_do_set_font()
  2026-06-25 · Mingyu Wang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree
  2026-07-02 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-07-02 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-07-02 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
  2026-07-02 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
  2026-07-02 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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.

• STALE208d [PATCH v2 1/4] fbdev: defio: Disconnect deferred I/O from the lifetime of struct fb_info
  2026-02-24 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE205d [PATCH 6.19 509/781] fbdev: of_display_timing: Fix device node reference leak in of_get_display_timings()
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE205d [PATCH 6.19 510/781] fbdev: au1200fb: Fix a memory leak in au1200fb_drv_probe()
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE196d [PATCH 6.18 400/641] fbdev: of_display_timing: Fix device node reference leak in of_get_display_timings()
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE196d [PATCH 6.18 401/641] fbdev: au1200fb: Fix a memory leak in au1200fb_drv_probe()
  2026-02-25 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.14
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE205d Re: Linux 6.19.4
  2026-02-26 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE195d [PATCH 6.19 807/844] fbdev: Use device_create_with_groups() to fix sysfs groups registration race
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE195d [PATCH 6.19 808/844] fbcon: check return value of con2fb_acquire_newinfo()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• STALE195d [PATCH 6.19 809/844] fbdev: vt8500lcdfb: fix missing dma_free_coherent()
  2026-02-28 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>