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Linus Torvalds 973c096f6a vgacon: remove software scrollback support 
Yunhai Zhang recently fixed a VGA software scrollback bug in commit
ebfdfeeae8 ("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>
 		2020-09-14 10:06:15 -07:00
Documentation ARM: SoC fixes 2020-09-13 14:54:40 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch vgacon: remove software scrollback support 2020-09-14 10:06:15 -07:00
block - Fix a regression in bdev partition locking (Christoph) 2020-09-11 11:55:28 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-08-30 15:53:44 -07:00
drivers vgacon: remove software scrollback support 2020-09-14 10:06:15 -07:00
fs Driver core fixes for 5.9-rc5 2020-09-13 09:02:59 -07:00
include Driver core fixes for 5.9-rc5 2020-09-13 09:02:59 -07:00
init init: fix error check in clean_path() 2020-09-04 09:16:58 -07:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel seccomp fixes for v5.9-rc5 2020-09-12 12:58:01 -07:00
lib Driver core fixes for 5.9-rc5 2020-09-13 09:02:59 -07:00
mm xen: branch for v5.9-rc4 2020-09-06 09:59:27 -07:00
net NFS client bugfixes for Linux 5.9 2020-09-09 11:14:20 -07:00
samples treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
scripts Char / Misc driver fixes for 5.9-rc5 2020-09-13 08:52:21 -07:00
security treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
sound sound fixes for 5.9-rc4 2020-09-04 12:05:25 -07:00
tools KVM/arm64 fixes for Linux 5.9, take #1 2020-09-11 13:12:11 -04:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt KVM: fix memory leak in kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev() 2020-09-11 13:15:11 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2020-09-01 12:53:42 +02:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-07-23 14:53:58 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Driver core fixes for 5.9-rc5 2020-09-13 09:02:59 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.9-rc5 2020-09-13 16:06:00 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.