linux-kernel - Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

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Message-ID: <87bldujj1r.fsf@vps.thesusis.net>
Date:   Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:00:09 -0500
From:   Phillip Susi <phill@...susis.net>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-doc\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Subject: Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)


Linus Torvalds writes:

> It really was buggy, with security implications. And we have no maintainers.

Could you be more specific?  I can't try to fix it if I don't understand
what is wrong with it.  Are there any bug reports or anything I could
look at?