Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:13 AM Phillip Susi [off-list ref] wrote:

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Could we pause this madness? Scrollback is still useful. I needed it
today... it was too small, so command results I was looking for
already scrolled away, but... life will be really painful with 0
scrollback.

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You'll need it, too... as soon as you get oops and will want to see
errors just prior to that oops.

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If it means I get to maintain it... I'm not happy about it but that's
better than no scrollback.

Amen!  What self respecting admin installs a gui on servers?  What do we
have to do to get this back in?  What was so buggy with this code that
it needed to be removed?  Why was it such a burden to just leave it be?

It really was buggy, with security implications. And we have no maintainers.

So the scroll-back code can't come back until we have a maintainer and
a cleaner and simpler implementation.

And no, maintaining it really doesn't mean "just get it back to the
old broken state".

So far I haven't actually seen any patches, which means that it's not
coming back.

The good news? If you have an actual text VGA console, that should
still work just fine.

                 Linus