Hi! > > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > 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. > > > > It is still useful. > > > > In particular, kernel is now very verbose, so important messages > > during bootup scroll away. It is way bigger deal when you can no > > longer get to them using shift-pageup. > > > > fsck is rather verbose, too, and there's no easy way to run that under > > X terminal... and yes, that makes scrollback very useful, too. > > > > So, I believe we'll need to fix this. I guess I could do it. I also > > guess I'll not have to, because SuSE or RedHat will want to fix it. > > > > Anyway, this really should not be merged into stable. > > It's merged into the stable trees that _I_ have to maintain. If you > want to revert it for trees you maintain and wish to keep secure, that's > up to you. But it's something that I _STRONGLY_ do not advise doing. I believe it will need to be reverted in Linus' tree, too. In fact, the patch seems to be a way for Linus to find a maintainer for the code, and I already stated I can do it. Patch is so new it was not even in -rc released by Linus. > See the email recently on oss-devel for one such reason why this was > removed... Would you have a link for that? Pavel -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
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