linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Automatically choose a bigger font for high resolution screens

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Message-ID: <20190620081240.GA17630@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:12:40 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Automatically choose a bigger font for high
 resolution screens

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 09:43:21AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 08:28:21 +0200,
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:34:22PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > this is an RFC patch for automatically selecting a bigger font for
> > > high resolution monitors if available.  Although we recently got a
> > > 16x32 sized font support in the kernel, using it still requires some
> > > extra kernel option.  This patch reduces this and the kernel will pick
> > > up a bigger font.
> > > 
> > > The logic is simply checking the text screen size.  If it's over a
> > > threshold, the penalty is given to the function that chooses the
> > > default font.
> > > 
> > > The threshold was chosen so that the normal display up to Full HD
> > > won't be affected.
> > > 
> > > There are two preliminary patches and they are merely cleanups.  They
> > > can be applied no matter whether to take the last patch or not.
> > 
> > I applied the first two patches, as they seem sane.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > I like the idea of the last one, and have no objections to it.  I can
> > apply it too if you want and we can see what happens :)
> 
> OK, then let's go ahead.  We can see what people react if they can
> read a kernel crash message without glasses :)

Now applied, thanks.

greg k-h