Re: [PATCH v3] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-11-16 Thread Manuel Schölling
Hi, I finally found the time to rework the patches, but there are a few things I want to discuss: > > This breaks tools like clear_console that rely on flushing the > > scrollback history by switching back and forth between consoles > > which is why this feature is disabled by default. > > Use th

Re: [PATCH v3] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-11-10 Thread Andrey Utkin
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:06:57AM +0200, 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. Hi

Re: [PATCH v3] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-09-27 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:06:57AM +0200, 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. >

Re: [PATCH v3] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-09-19 Thread Manuel Schölling
Hi Tomi, I thought I'd let you, Tomi, (and all the others) know what the patch does: There is currently a single scrollback buffer (vgacon_scrollback) that contains the text of the current console. When you switch the console it is cleared and re-used for the new console. My patch simply replaced

[PATCH v3] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-09-18 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. It always annoys me when I switch back to a console and I can just read half

[PATCH v3] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-09-14 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. It always annoys me when I switch back to a console and I can just read half

[PATCH v3] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-09-06 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. It always annoys me when I switch back to a console and I can just read half

[PATCH v3] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-08-27 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. It always annoys me when I switch back to a console and I can just read half