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=-10.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham 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 6CF1DC433E2 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 01:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE87020732 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 01:19:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="APwmWzHo" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726019AbgIOBTV (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:19:21 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:53732 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725999AbgIOBTS (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:19:18 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1231::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E30DEC06174A; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:19:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=merlin.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:Cc:From:References:To:Subject:Sender :Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=v9FWm4hfn+Gl7QRXgXNxLaYsXltVQy8MIpwN6KsfkPU=; b=APwmWzHow9lj1CoVKgq9lWkz3L z9nA9PnAK5TNUuzh8Q1nmMyi/UFC6SABsKF2E/vx8KGzRhMlrpf4qVpcUMcOd1OSB6A1ArPj0D6hm LPy8MurFW8NUL36E7pPIWZRuATJhJJjakeE9JdwRWHQbP8rSdPZ0UDOI9xfjom/+3diDYuPxhvfiZ rxjZWzJCu1FBt4cNgg6QXNRh7aE75dmJgv1mLOQc5C9+gkHiAKzE59RH63BnHgRDeAPoxorOlsQtO lqzVIpL2w4FasBymgzaxO05jqJjbE3zzzVgPxeElT66cfvdGZL36wYZ/AGGyrgtfSbHB/77L9H+ul HcMKMEuA==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::19c2] by merlin.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1kHzcW-0002kl-V7; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 01:18:57 +0000 Subject: Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch) To: Linus Torvalds , LKML , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" References: From: Randy Dunlap Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Daniel Vetter , Yuan Ming , Willy Tarreau , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , NopNop Nop , =?UTF-8?B?5byg5LqR5rW3?= , Andy Lutomirski Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:18:50 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org HI-- 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 > AuthorDate: Mon Sep 7 11:45:27 2020 -0700 > Committer: Linus Torvalds > 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 > AuthorDate: Wed Sep 9 14:53:50 2020 -0700 > Committer: Linus Torvalds > 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