diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/drm_fourcc.h b/include/uapi/drm/drm_fourcc.h
index a5890bf44c0afa3b78d1cfa66308b097d1c38710..0ccef30e56b61910142a5fa19d921d8f00c206d0 100644
--- a/include/uapi/drm/drm_fourcc.h
+++ b/include/uapi/drm/drm_fourcc.h
@@ -172,6 +172,16 @@ extern "C" {
  * authoritative source for all of these.
  */
 
+/*
+ * Linear Layout
+ *
+ * Just plain linear layout. Note that this is different from no specifying any
+ * modifier (e.g. not setting DRM_MODE_FB_MODIFIERS in the DRM_ADDFB2 ioctl),
+ * which tells the driver to also take driver-internal information into account
+ * and so might actually result in a tiled framebuffer.
+ */
+#define DRM_FORMAT_MOD_LINEAR	fourcc_mod_code(NONE, 0)
+
 /* Intel framebuffer modifiers */
 
 /*