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>
Wed, 23 Sep 2020 06:46:12 +0000 (08:46 +0200)
commitc7e41b00de99932f189d8af3a40caee31a385788
tree9b11fa663b642d8143ec3bd9d0bb023016dd96a0
parent774519ed39da09471abe2c02a7f293c380759cc3
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/console/fbcon.c