fbcon: remove soft scrollback code
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 7 Sep 2020 18:45:27 +0000 (11:45 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:06:15 +0000 (10:06 -0700)
commit50145474f6ef4a9c19205b173da6264a644c7489
tree83cc014694936eb2c12d1beaaa48ad2ce1d43f71
parent856deb866d16e29bd65952e0289066f6078af773
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.

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>
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c