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The Linux framebuffer device (fbdev) subsystem has long languished in
something of a purgatory; it was listed as “orphaned” in the
MAINTAINERS file and saw fairly minimal maintenance, mostly driven
by developers working elsewhere in the kernel graphics stack. That all
changed, in an eye-opening way, on January 17, when Linus Torvalds
merged a change
to make Helge Deller the new maintainer of the subsystem. But it turns out
that the problems in fbdev run deep, at least according to much of the rest
of the kernel graphics community. By seeming to take on the maintainer role in order to
revert the removal of some buggy features from fbdev, Deller has created
something of a controversy.