linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] VT: Restore VT fonts on switch

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Message-Id: <1216676409.7585.215.camel@cunning>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:40:09 -0400
From:	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...onical.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VT: Restore VT fonts on switch

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:23 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:53:04 -0400
> Ben Collins <bcollins@...ssdisk.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:43 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:39:44 -0400
> > > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Not all X drivers save and restore fonts on text VTs. Add code to
> > > > the kernel to explicitly save and restore them on VT switches.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > do you have a list of which ones don't ?
> > 
> > I don't, but perhaps Matthew does.
> > 
> I was assuming Matthew would respond since he sent this patch to lkml
> after all...

Actually, I sent it on Matthews behalf, so perhaps you could understand
why I answered.

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