Bug#845177: patch

2017-01-19 Thread Manuel Schölling
Adam's patch is pretty trivial. I developed the new feature for the kernel and agree that his patch solves the issue. I also don't see any problems with this patch for kernels that have CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=n. We tested this escape sequence for kernels with and without

Bug#845177: [PATCH v10 3/4] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2017-01-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 05:33:14PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 05:12:15PM +0100, Manuel Schölling wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-01-19 at 14:23 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 09:07:57PM +0100, Manuel Schölling wrote: > > > > +   This feature might break your

Bug#845177: patch

2016-11-21 Thread Adam Borowski
Control: tags -1 +patch Here's the obvious patch. It has an extra bonus of working even when the TERM variable is unset or set to something that terminfo doesn't recognize. Please apply before the freeze, if you do we'll be able to flip the default for CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_PERSISTENT