HI--If you wont mind ...let me stab at it ...
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 <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon Sep 7 11:45:27 2020 -0700
Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed Sep 9 14:53:50 2020 -0700
Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature