From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B08C433DB for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2021 19:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5ED23A9B for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2021 19:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728326AbhAHTVW (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2021 14:21:22 -0500 Received: from vps.thesusis.net ([34.202.238.73]:44312 "EHLO vps.thesusis.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727919AbhAHTVW (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2021 14:21:22 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 447 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:21:22 EST Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vps.thesusis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42A02739C; Fri, 8 Jan 2021 14:13:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from vps.thesusis.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vps.thesusis.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dagrAE_vPef1; Fri, 8 Jan 2021 14:13:14 -0500 (EST) Received: by vps.thesusis.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 85FF72739B; Fri, 8 Jan 2021 14:13:14 -0500 (EST) User-agent: mu4e 1.5.7; emacs 26.3 From: Phillip Susi To: Pavel Machek Cc: Linus Torvalds , Randy Dunlap , LKML , "linux-doc\@vger.kernel.org" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Daniel Vetter Subject: Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch) In-Reply-To: <20200916205434.GA10389@duo.ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:01:31 -0500 Message-ID: <87czyf5jjp.fsf@vps.thesusis.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org > 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? Now excuse me while I go dust off the old ext2 defrag utility and enjoy watching disk blocks move around the ncurses interface.