Re: [PATCH] Staging: speakup: read scrolled-back VT

[One Thousand Gnomes]

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 18:20:39 +0100
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Previously, speakup would always read the bottom part of the screen,
> even when the VT is scrolled back with shift-page.  This patch makes
> vt.c export screen_pos so that speakup can use it to properly access
> the content of the scrolled-back VT.
> 
> This was tested with both vgacon and fbcon.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I know the policy was that we don't put core code hooks in for staging
stuff but I hope in this case we do.

Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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