Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>  wrote:
 > And if it is an option you need not use it at all.  The feature is a
 > popular one, we have, by my counting, 3 offers to put this feature
 > in.  The other two were battered down by a few who did not care for
 > it.  If you don't like the option then don't configure it, I certainly
 > can see good reasons for having console scrollback in the kernel.

Me too.  

Example:  I use PC Weasel's on all my NetBSD machines.  Instead of using
NetBSD with a serial console, I use wscons on the Weasel. I still get a
serial console but I also get virtual terminals on the console.  The only
thing missing over a serial console is scroll-back.

So, I'd configure scroll-back in if it were there.


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