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>
Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:47:54 +0000 (13:47 +0200)
commitcf5a7ded53652c3d63d7243944c6a8ec1f0ef392
tree80af76f289ab754048804676cfab5a2ee8baeed5
parenta0f6bdafaa4c5bb057c8aea5ac2ddfc52a5355f5
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/fbdev/core/fbcon.c