On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:28:38PM +0100, Manuel Schölling wrote: > The impact of the persistent scrollback feature on the code size is > rather small, so the config option is removed. The feature stays > disabled by default and can be enabled by using the boot command line > parameter 'vgacon.scrollback_persistent=1' or by setting > VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_PERSISTENT_ENABLE_BY_DEFAULT=y. > > Signed-off-by: Manuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@xxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> > +module_param_named(scrollback_persistent, scrollback_persistent, bool, 0000); > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(scrollback_persistent, "Enable persistent scrollback for all vga consoles"); A command-line knob settable by the end-user is something more persistent than a config option. As you're going to extend this code beyond vgacon in the near future, perhaps it'd be better to have a shared setting for all console drivers? Meow! -- Autotools hint: to do a zx-spectrum build on a pdp11 host, type: ./configure --host=zx-spectrum --build=pdp11 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
