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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-09-09 14:53:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-09-23 10:46:31 +0200 |
| commit | 34c050b531a72639e61a3be24b608604753f885a (patch) | |
| tree | 31893eb5c36adb85ac62dc4d70850fba16c5dc33 /arch | |
| parent | 0ae010dd46a4a81c6eda80254a86b8b4596cad6d (diff) | |
vgacon: remove software scrollback support
commit 973c096f6a85e5b5f2a295126ba6928d9a6afd45 upstream.
Yunhai Zhang recently fixed a VGA software scrollback bug in commit
ebfdfeeae8c0 ("vgacon: Fix for missing check in scrollback handling"),
but that then made people look more closely at some of this code, and
there were more problems on the vgacon side, but also the fbcon software
scrollback.
We don't really have anybody who maintains this code - probably because
nobody actually _uses_ it any more. Sure, people still use both VGA and
the framebuffer consoles, but they are no longer the main user
interfaces to the kernel, and haven't been for decades, so these kinds
of extra features end up bitrotting and not really being used.
So rather than try to maintain a likely unused set of code, I'll just
aggressively remove it, and see if anybody even notices. Maybe there
are people who haven't jumped on the whole GUI badnwagon yet, and think
it's just a fad. And maybe those people use the scrollback code.
If that turns out to be the case, we can resurrect this again, once
we've found the sucker^Wmaintainer for it who actually uses it.
Reported-by: NopNop Nop <nopitydays@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: 张云海 <zhangyunhai@nsfocus.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig | 1 |
4 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig index 6daa56f8895c..5f743db4c9f8 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig @@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y # CONFIG_LCD_CLASS_DEVICE is not set -CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y CONFIG_LOGO=y CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SND=y diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig index da0e8d535eb8..b1b072a3f789 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig @@ -781,7 +781,6 @@ CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT=m CONFIG_FB_SM501=m CONFIG_FB_IBM_GXT4500=y CONFIG_LCD_PLATFORM=m -CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION=y CONFIG_LOGO=y diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig index 0eb9f92f3717..7aab9c4f86a9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig +++ b/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig @@ -217,7 +217,6 @@ CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y CONFIG_FB_EFI=y # CONFIG_LCD_CLASS_DEVICE is not set -CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y CONFIG_LOGO=y # CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO is not set # CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16 is not set diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig index e32fc1f274d8..7484a27861d4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig +++ b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig @@ -213,7 +213,6 @@ CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y CONFIG_FB_EFI=y # CONFIG_LCD_CLASS_DEVICE is not set -CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y CONFIG_LOGO=y # CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO is not set # CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16 is not set |