19 Jan
2022
19 Jan
'22
2:01 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 2:29 PM Helge Deller deller@gmx.de wrote:
Ah, no, that was just the soft scrollback code I was thinking of, which
Right. That was commit 973c096f6a85 and it was about vgacon, not fbcon.
No, fbcon had some bug too, although I've paged out the details. See commit 50145474f6ef ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code").
If I remember correctly (and it's entirely possible that I don't), the whole "softback_lines" logic had serious problems with resizing the console (or maybe changing the font size).
There may have been some other bad interaction with foreground/background consoles too, I forget.
Linus