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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)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:06:15 +0000 (10:06 -0700)
commita485053d5bcd04832ead3dd9933483b612658d97
tree83cc014694936eb2c12d1beaaa48ad2ce1d43f71
parent490b1f9d3b599ea255de59eeb320d58c1220e31c
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