Re: [PATCH 4.19 66/78] fbcon: remove soft scrollback code

Pavel Machek
2020-09-23T08:44:31Z

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Hi!

> > I believe it will need to be reverted in Linus' tree, too. In fact,
> > the patch seems to be a way for Linus to find a maintainer for the
> > code, and I already stated I can do it. Patch is so new it was not
> > even in -rc released by Linus.
>
> I can honestly see how it can be missed from fbcon, but using vgacon
> myself for cases like you described, I still benefit from the hw scroll
> buffer which is OK.
>
> > > See the email recently on oss-devel for one such reason why this was
> > > removed...
> >
> > Would you have a link for that?
>
> Here it is:
>
> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/15/2

Thank you for the pointer!

Best regards,
Pavel
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