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Subject: Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Date:   Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:18:50 -0700
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HI--

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@linux-foundation.org>
> AuthorDate: Mon Sep 7 11:45:27 2020 -0700
> Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> 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@linux-foundation.org>
> AuthorDate: Wed Sep 9 14:53:50 2020 -0700
> Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> 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")...


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~Randy