Re: [PATCH] fbcon: garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 3:04 AM Hamza Mahfooz
<someguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As per commit 39aead8373b3 ("fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling"), we can
> now remove all of the code that was made redundant by disabling scrolling
> acceleration.

Bummer, more code to revert to re-enable acceleration in the _56_
fbdev drivers using acceleration (some of them unusable without),
despite commit 39aead8373b3 claiming "No other driver supportes
accelerated fbcon"...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds