From patchwork Tue Sep 29 11:00:47 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Greg KH X-Patchwork-Id: 293244 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:00:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 4.4 80/85] tty: vt, consw->con_scrolldelta cleanup Message-Id: <20200929105932.191358795@linuxfoundation.org> List-Id: References: <20200929105928.198942536@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20200929105928.198942536@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby , Thomas Winischhofer , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Tomi Valkeinen , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, Ajay Kaher From: Jiri Slaby commit 97293de977365fe672daec2523e66ef457104921 upstream. * allow NULL consw->con_scrolldelta (some consoles define an empty hook) * => remove empty hooks now * return value of consw->con_scrolldelta is never checked => make the function void * document consw->con_scrolldelta a bit Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Cc: Thomas Winischhofer Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard Cc: Tomi Valkeinen Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Helge Deller Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ajay Kaher [ for 4.4.y backport, only do the first change above, to prevent .con_scrolldelta from being called if not present - gregkh] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -2484,7 +2484,7 @@ static void console_callback(struct work if (scrollback_delta) { struct vc_data *vc = vc_cons[fg_console].d; clear_selection(); - if (vc->vc_mode = KD_TEXT) + if (vc->vc_mode = KD_TEXT && vc->vc_sw->con_scrolldelta) vc->vc_sw->con_scrolldelta(vc, scrollback_delta); scrollback_delta = 0; }