From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] vgacon: remember scrollback buffer on console switch Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:00:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20081029140056.GA1469@ucw.cz> References: <20081025195814.GD10932@joi> <20081025134615.36f7285f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081025224247.GA25497@joi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081025224247.GA25497@joi> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Marcin Slusarz Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , Antonino Daplas , Krzysztof Helt , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Hi! > > If so, it would be much much better to make this feature switchable at > > runtime (module parameter/boot option or a /proc or /sys knob). > > /sys knob seems to be the most flexible option. > > /sys/class/vtconsole/vtconX/persistent_history? 0/1 0/number-of-lines-to-remember? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html