[PATCH RESEND v7 2/3] console: Add callback to flush scrollback buffer to consw struct

2017-01-02 Thread Manuel Schölling
This new callback is in preparation for persistent scrollback buffer support for VGA consoles. With a single scrollback buffer for all consoles, we could flush the buffer just by invocating consw->con_switch(). But when each VGA console has its own scrollback buffer, we need a new callback to tell

[PATCH RESEND v7 2/3] console: Add callback to flush scrollback buffer to consw struct

2016-12-21 Thread Manuel Schölling
This new callback is in preparation for persistent scrollback buffer support for VGA consoles. With a single scrollback buffer for all consoles, we could flush the buffer just by invocating consw->con_switch(). But when each VGA console has its own scrollback buffer, we need a new callback to tell