Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-11-23 Thread Manuel Schölling
On Di, 2016-11-22 at 19:31 +, Andrey Utkin wrote: > I'm not sure my emails with review of previous submission reached you, but in > them I meant to mention that there are some style nits which are easy to > eliminate. I am afraid I did not get it. I will fix these style issues in the next patch

Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-11-22 Thread Andrey Utkin
Well done Manuel. I'm not sure my emails with review of previous submission reached you, but in them I meant to mention that there are some style nits which are easy to eliminate. checkpatch --strict is happy on patch 1/2, but on 2/2 there are few points. If you ever have a reason to submit v7, p

[PATCH v6 2/2] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

2016-11-22 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