linux-kernel - [PATCH v3] docs: fb: Remove matroxfb scrollback boot option

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Message-Id: <20200916231301.32066-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Sep 2020 04:43:01 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     b.zolnierkie@...sung.com, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     corbet@....net, rdunlap@...radead.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        daniel@...ll.ch, yuanmingbuaa@...il.com, w@....eu,
        nopitydays@...il.com, zhangyunhai@...ocus.com, luto@...capital.net,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] docs: fb: Remove matroxfb scrollback boot option


This patch remove the reference of scrollback option from this file. This
is related to the below commits.

Commit 973c096f6a85(vgacon: remove software scrollback support)
Commit 50145474f6ef(fbcon: remove soft scrollback code)

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
---
Correcting the previous versions errors. Proper changelog, subject text.
Trying to incorporate Willy's and Greg's suggestions.

 Documentation/fb/matroxfb.rst | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.rst b/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.rst
index f1859d98606e..6158c49c8571 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.rst
+++ b/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.rst
@@ -317,8 +317,6 @@ Currently there are following known bugs:
  - interlaced text mode is not supported; it looks like hardware limitation,
    but I'm not sure.
  - Gxx0 SGRAM/SDRAM is not autodetected.
- - If you are using more than one framebuffer device, you must boot kernel
-   with 'video=scrollback:0'.
  - maybe more...
 
 And following misfeatures:
-- 
2.28.0