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* [PATCH v3] docs: fb: Remove vesafb scrollback boot option
@ 2020-09-16 23:41 Bhaskar Chowdhury
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From: Bhaskar Chowdhury @ 2020-09-16 23:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: b.zolnierkie, linux-fbdev, linux-doc, linux-kernel
  Cc: corbet, rdunlap, gregkh, daniel, yuanmingbuaa, w, nopitydays,
	zhangyunhai, luto, torvalds, Bhaskar Chowdhury


This patch remove the reference of scrollback from this file. This is 
related to these below commits.

Commit 973c096f6a85(vgacon: remove software scrollback support)
Commit 50145474f6ef(fbcon: remove soft scrollback code)

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
---
Correcting the previous versions errors. Proper changelog and subject text.
Trying to incorporate Willy's and Greg's suggestions.

 Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst b/Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst
index 6821c87b7893..f890a4f5623b 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst
+++ b/Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst
@@ -135,8 +135,6 @@ ypan	  enable display panning using the VESA protected mode
 
                 * scrolling (fullscreen) is fast, because there is
 		  no need to copy around data.
-		* You'll get scrollback (the Shift-PgUp thing),
-		  the video memory can be used as scrollback buffer
 
           kontra:
 
-- 
2.28.0

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