Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:14:20 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4.19 66/78] fbcon: remove soft scrollback code |
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Hi Pavel,
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:07:23AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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
Willy
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