Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 2021 15:11:34 -0800 | Subject | Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch) |
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On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:13 AM Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net> wrote: > > > Could we pause this madness? Scrollback is still useful. I needed it > > today... it was too small, so command results I was looking for > > already scrolled away, but... life will be really painful with 0 > > scrollback. > > > You'll need it, too... as soon as you get oops and will want to see > > errors just prior to that oops. > > > If it means I get to maintain it... I'm not happy about it but that's > > better than no scrollback. > > Amen! What self respecting admin installs a gui on servers? What do we > have to do to get this back in? What was so buggy with this code that > it needed to be removed? Why was it such a burden to just leave it be?
It really was buggy, with security implications. And we have no maintainers.
So the scroll-back code can't come back until we have a maintainer and a cleaner and simpler implementation.
And no, maintaining it really doesn't mean "just get it back to the old broken state".
So far I haven't actually seen any patches, which means that it's not coming back.
The good news? If you have an actual text VGA console, that should still work just fine.
Linus
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