Re: [PATCH v9 4/4] console: Make persistent scrollback a boot parameter

[Paul Gortmaker]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Manuel SchÃlling
<manuel.schoelling@xxxxxx> wrote:
> The impact of the persistent scrollback feature on the code size is
> rather small, so the config option is removed. The feature stays
> disabled by default and can be enabled by using the boot command line
> parameter 'vgacon.scrollback_persistent=1' or by setting
> VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_PERSISTENT_ENABLE_BY_DEFAULT=y.
>
> Signed-off-by: Manuel SchÃlling <manuel.schoelling@xxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

[...]

> +module_param_named(scrollback_persistent, scrollback_persistent, bool, 0000);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(scrollback_persistent, "Enable persistent scrollback for all vga consoles");

Since this hasn't got widespread deployment yet and  only exists
in Greg's tree, can we please fix the above to use setup_param or
similar, since there is nothing modular about this code at all.

Thanks.
Paul.