16 Sep
2020
16 Sep
'20
9:14 a.m.
Hi Pavel,
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:07:23AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
I believe it will need to be reverted in Linus' tree, too. In fact, the patch seems to be a way for Linus to find a maintainer for the code, and I already stated I can do it. Patch is so new it was not even in -rc released by Linus.
I can honestly see how it can be missed from fbcon, but using vgacon myself for cases like you described, I still benefit from the hw scroll buffer which is OK.
See the email recently on oss-devel for one such reason why this was removed...
Would you have a link for that?
Here it is:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/15/2
Willy