Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, James Simmons wrote:

quoted

[CONSOLE] Don't let a monochrome display stomp all over the console color 
values.

Why is this ugly patch required? If something can't do color, why does it 
care about "color" in the first place?

Because it stores some text attributes in that place.

We've never needed this patch 
before, it looks like something broke somewhere _else_ that causes this
to be relevant.

It was always broken. This went unnoticed, apparently nobody tried to use
a kernel which supports mono and colour framebuffers at the same time.


Thiemo