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=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 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 D6B5BC2D0A8 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 08:44:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A58E3221F0 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 08:44:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726178AbgIWIoa (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2020 04:44:30 -0400 Received: from jabberwock.ucw.cz ([46.255.230.98]:46174 "EHLO jabberwock.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726130AbgIWIo3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2020 04:44:29 -0400 Received: by jabberwock.ucw.cz (Postfix, from userid 1017) id 3ACE61C0BB3; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:44:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:44:27 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Pavel Machek , Greg Kroah-Hartman , jikos@suse.cz, vojtech@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Yuan Ming , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Daniel Vetter , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 66/78] fbcon: remove soft scrollback code Message-ID: <20200923084427.GA32110@amd> References: <20200915140633.552502750@linuxfoundation.org> <20200915140636.861676717@linuxfoundation.org> <20200916075759.GC32537@duo.ucw.cz> <20200916082510.GB509119@kroah.com> <20200916090723.GA4151@duo.ucw.cz> <20200916091420.GF13670@1wt.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200916091420.GF13670@1wt.eu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > > > See the email recently on oss-devel for one such reason why this was > > > removed... > >=20 > > Would you have a link for that? >=20 > Here it is: >=20 > https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/15/2 Thank you for the pointer! Best regards, Pavel --=20 DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAl9rCusACgkQMOfwapXb+vJD9QCgq8uPa3CErsd9aG+WeyQHw58W 5rkAn1hcOezryPDv6NTJS4D5olmgVTPF =Eekr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV--