linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for all VGA consoles

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Date:   Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:28:19 +0100
From:   Manuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@....de>
To:     Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin@...tmail.com>
Cc:     plagnioj@...osoft.com, tomi.valkeinen@...com, jslaby@...e.cz,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, kilobyte@...band.pl,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] console: Add persistent scrollback buffers for
 all VGA consoles

Hi Andrey,

Adam already discussed some of your notes, but I want to catch up one
this one:

On So, 2016-11-27 at 21:37 +0000, Andrey Utkin wrote:
> I see the user experience is subpar to what I'm accustomed to (I use
> Konsole and "Clear Scrollback and Reset" action, default shortcut is
> Ctrl+Shift+K). The strange behaviour moments have nothing to do with
> current patchset but are properties of vgacon, though. (I compared it
> with another PC which runs without this patchset, and it looks like it
> runs vgacon, too, however, I'm not sure how to ensure this at runtime.)
I'm not sure what you mean with 'subpar'. Ctrl+Shift+K would probably be
nice - but it might interfere with some shortcuts of programs.
Are you missing any other features?
(I am working on persistent scrollback for framebuffer consoles in the
mean time...)

Bye,

Manuel