From 973c096f6a85e5b5f2a295126ba6928d9a6afd45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 14:53:50 -0700 Subject: vgacon: remove software scrollback support MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Tested-by: Willy Tarreau Cc: 张云海 Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: Willy Tarreau Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig | 1 - arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/configs') diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig index d7577fece9eb..f556827dea58 100644 --- a/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig +++ b/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig @@ -186,7 +186,6 @@ CONFIG_DRM_I915=y CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y CONFIG_FB_EFI=y -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 f85600143747..9936528e1939 100644 --- a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig +++ b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig @@ -181,7 +181,6 @@ CONFIG_DRM_I915=y CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y CONFIG_FB_EFI=y -CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y CONFIG_LOGO=y # CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO is not set # CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16 is not set -- cgit v1.2.3