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SubjectRe: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2)
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> > 
> > Linux has never had different number of lines on different VTs.
>
> Are you sure? There used to be a comment about this in
> drivers/char/console.c.
> It said the feature was removed because `it's messy to have all consoles of
> potentially different sizes'.
>

If so, it has been that not all the lines on the screen was used.
Linux has *never* been able to change the actual line count on
different screens.

-hpa

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