From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752209AbcAARii (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jan 2016 12:38:38 -0500 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:37956 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752052AbcAARif (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jan 2016 12:38:35 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 17:38:03 +0000 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Samuel Thibault Cc: William Hubbs , Chris Brannon , Kirk Reiser , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , speakup@linux-speakup.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: speakup: read scrolled-back VT Message-ID: <20160101173803.6edbd9ec@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20160101172039.GC2860@var.home> References: <20160101172039.GC2860@var.home> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 18:20:39 +0100 Samuel Thibault wrote: > Previously, speakup would always read the bottom part of the screen, > even when the VT is scrolled back with shift-page. This patch makes > vt.c export screen_pos so that speakup can use it to properly access > the content of the scrolled-back VT. > > This was tested with both vgacon and fbcon. > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault I know the policy was that we don't put core code hooks in for staging stuff but I hope in this case we do. Reviewed-by: Alan Cox