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SubjectRe: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)
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On 9/14/20 3:48 PM, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> Commit: 50145474f6ef4a9c19205b173da6264a644c7489
> Parent: 856deb866d16e29bd65952e0289066f6078af773
> Refname: refs/heads/master
> Web: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/50145474f6ef4a9c19205b173da6264a644c7489
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> AuthorDate: Mon Sep 7 11:45:27 2020 -0700
> Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> CommitDate: Mon Sep 14 10:06:15 2020 -0700
>
> fbcon: remove soft scrollback code
>
> This (and the VGA soft scrollback) turns out to have various nasty small
> special cases that nobody really is willing to fight. The soft
> scrollback code was really useful a few decades ago when you typically
> used the console interactively as the main way to interact with the
> machine, but that just isn't the case any more.

and:

> Commit: 973c096f6a85e5b5f2a295126ba6928d9a6afd45
> Parent: 06a0df4d1b8b13b551668e47b11fd7629033b7df
> Refname: refs/heads/master
> Web: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/973c096f6a85e5b5f2a295126ba6928d9a6afd45
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> AuthorDate: Wed Sep 9 14:53:50 2020 -0700
> Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> CommitDate: Mon Sep 14 10:06:15 2020 -0700
>
> vgacon: remove software scrollback support



diffstats:

> ---
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 334 +--------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 330 deletions(-)

> arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig | 1 -
> drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 46 -------
> drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 221 +---------------------------------
> 6 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 270 deletions(-)




Now someone can remove the documentation for scrollback (and "no-scroll")...


--
~Randy

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