fbcon: remove soft scrollback code
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 7 Sep 2020 18:45:27 +0000 (11:45 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:55:43 +0000 (13:55 +0200)
commit245a228891e3627e47921db1ec1b6612f118158b
tree5d78f51b1e7d5b5d2a831f925d96fe446d41a97f
parent20a3fda3dc88aeb566c9be9633510d3f69b72baf
fbcon: remove soft scrollback code

commit 50145474f6ef4a9c19205b173da6264a644c7489 upstream.

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.

So it's not worth dragging along.

Tested-by: Yuan Ming <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c