From: =?UTF-8?q?Manuel=20Sch=C3=B6lling?= <manuel.schoelling@gmx.de>
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Subject: [PATCH v4] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA console
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:38:51 +0100
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Changes in v4:
  - Rename from VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_FOR_EACH_CONSOLE to
    VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_PERSISTENT
  - Split into two patches
  - Rework documentation
  - Remove cosmetic changes in comments (postponed)
Changes in v3:
  - Add config option for this feature
  - Fallback to old scrollback buffer if kcalloc() fails
  - Remove ioctl() call again and add documentation about existing
    escape sequence to flush the scrollback buffer
Changes in v2:
  - Add ioctl() call to flush scrollback buffer
  - (Patch v2 was not labeled as such, sorry)