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Hello, Wol. |
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On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 18:44:15 +0100, antlists wrote: |
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> On 05/04/2021 18:12, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Bug reports and other comments are welcome, of course. |
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> > If anybody would like the corresponding patch which works on 5.4.n, for n |
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> >> = 80, that is available, too. |
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> Why did it get removed from the kernel? |
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Allegedly, there were security problems with it. I think the kernel |
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people had a program which fired random inputs at lots of components, |
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and noted when things went wrong; and things went wrong in the scroll |
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back component. And they couldn't find anybody to look into these |
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problems. |
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That's the official position. I'm a bit more cynical about it. |
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> If you want to get it back in, couldn't you ping Greg KH and get some |
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> help - or even just advice - getting it accepted? |
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I have no reason to believe all the "security problems" will have been |
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resolved by my hacking. I took the algorithmic bits from 4.19.97 |
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basically unchanged. |
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Maybe there's not much enthusiasm for this feature, in which case I will |
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keep it working for myself. Linux is basically unusable to me without |
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it. There are probably quite a few patches to restore the scrollback |
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floating around the web by now: the changes were not particularly |
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difficult to anybody who knows the code, but getting to know the code |
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was unusually difficult. |
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We'll see how people react to it here, first. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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