Re: [PATCH 4.19 66/78] fbcon: remove soft scrollback code

Hi!

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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.

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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

Thank you for the pointer!

Best regards, Pavel