[PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-05-23 Thread Manuel Schölling
Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that the scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles but is persistent. The buffers are allocated on demand when a new console is opened. This breaks tools like clear_console that rely on flushing the scrollback hi

[PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-05-16 Thread Manuel Schölling
Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that the scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles but is persistent. The buffers are allocated on demand when a new console is opened. This breaks tools like clear_console that rely on flushing the scrollback hi

[PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-05-09 Thread Manuel Schölling
Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that the scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles but is persistent. The buffers are allocated on demand when a new console is opened. This breaks tools like clear_console that rely on flushing the scrollback hi

[PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-05-02 Thread Manuel Schölling
Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that the scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles but is persistent. The buffers are allocated on demand when a new console is opened. This breaks tools like clear_console that rely on flushing the scrollback hi

[PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-04-23 Thread Manuel Schölling
Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that the scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles but is persistent. The buffers are allocated on demand when a new console is opened. This breaks tools like clear_console that rely on flushing the scrollback hi

Re: [PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2014-05-31 Thread Manuel Schoelling
On Sa, 2014-05-31 at 00:26 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Manuel Schölling , 2014-05-30, 15:27: > >Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that the > >scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles but > >is persistent. > > Some people rely on this scrollba

Re: [PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2014-05-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Manuel Schölling , 2014-05-30, 15:27: Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that the scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles but is persistent. Some people rely on this scrollback flushing as a security feature. Is there even another way to

Re: [PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2014-05-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 05/30/2014 06:27 AM, Manuel Schölling wrote: > --- > drivers/video/console/Kconfig |6 +- > drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 124 > > 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/vide

Re: [PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2014-05-30 Thread Manuel Schoelling
Hi Geert, On Fr, 2014-05-30 at 16:28 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Hi Manuel, > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Manuel Schölling > wrote: > > Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that > > the scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles > > but

Re: [PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2014-05-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Manuel, On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Manuel Schölling wrote: > Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that > the scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles > but is persistent. > The buffers are allocated on demand when a new console is opened.

[PATCH] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2014-05-30 Thread Manuel Schölling
Add a scrollback buffers for each VGA console. The benefit is that the scrollback history is not flushed when switching between consoles but is persistent. The buffers are allocated on demand when a new console is opened. Signed-off-by: Manuel Schölling --- drivers/video/console/Kconfig |6