From patchwork Thu Sep 17 10:38:14 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Bhaskar Chowdhury X-Patchwork-Id: 293238 From: Bhaskar Chowdhury Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:38:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] docs: fb: Remove sstfb scrollback boot option Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 To: b.zolnierkie@samsung.com, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: corbet@lwn.net, rdunlap@infradead.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, daniel@ffwll.ch, yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com, w@1wt.eu, nopitydays@gmail.com, zhangyunhai@nsfocus.com, luto@amacapital.net, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Bhaskar Chowdhury In commit 50145474f6ef ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"), the framebuffer scrollback mode was removed, but the documentation was not updated. Properly update the documentation by removing the option that is no longer present i.e remove a stanza related to scrollback. Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury --- Changesince V3: Following Willy's and Greg's suggestion remove the not relevant commit hash and message from the changelog and put a correct one. Documentation/fb/sstfb.rst | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/fb/sstfb.rst b/Documentation/fb/sstfb.rst index 8e8c1b940359..42466ff49c58 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/sstfb.rst +++ b/Documentation/fb/sstfb.rst @@ -185,9 +185,6 @@ Bugs contact me. - The 24/32 is not likely to work anytime soon, knowing that the hardware does ... unusual things in 24/32 bpp. -- When used with another video board, current limitations of the linux - console subsystem can cause some troubles, specifically, you should - disable software scrollback, as it can oops badly ... Todo == From patchwork Thu Sep 17 10:38:15 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Bhaskar Chowdhury X-Patchwork-Id: 293248 From: Bhaskar Chowdhury Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:38:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] docs: fb: Remove vesafb scrollback boot option Message-Id: <799e4d6ecca9aab53e823fc0001887d728be0aa5.1600333774.git.unixbhaskar@gmail.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 To: b.zolnierkie@samsung.com, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: corbet@lwn.net, rdunlap@infradead.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, daniel@ffwll.ch, yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com, w@1wt.eu, nopitydays@gmail.com, zhangyunhai@nsfocus.com, luto@amacapital.net, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Bhaskar Chowdhury In commit 50145474f6ef ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"), the framebuffer scrollback mode was removed, but the documentation was not updated. Properly update the documentation by removing the option that is no longer present,remove the scrollback option. Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury --- Changes since V3: Following Willy's and Greg's suggestion,get rid of not relevant commit hash and message from changelog and put a correct one. Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst b/Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst index 6821c87b7893..f890a4f5623b 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst +++ b/Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst @@ -135,8 +135,6 @@ ypan enable display panning using the VESA protected mode * scrolling (fullscreen) is fast, because there is no need to copy around data. - * You'll get scrollback (the Shift-PgUp thing), - the video memory can be used as scrollback buffer kontra: