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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 06:44:25 +0000 (08:44 +0200)
commit1f08e80ec5751b8f565139cd7a921fbee46f8a22
tree8c45a64d5aac79d7bfeff6db7ba3d055861d928c
parente349a5786f4c23eb11d1e7385703ddbf94f3f061
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