patch "vgacon: remove prehistoric macros" added to tty-testing

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

vgacon: remove prehistoric macros

to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-testing branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will be merged to the tty-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From b9c8b7fc252cd8e7e629f14bb8a68d54889470da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 11:18:39 +0200
Subject: vgacon: remove prehistoric macros

These macros:
* CAN_LOAD_EGA_FONTS
* CAN_LOAD_PALETTE
* TRIDENT_GLITCH
* VGA_CAN_DO_64KB
* SLOW_VGA
are either always set or always unset. They come from the linux 2.1 times. And given nobody switched them to some configurable options, I assume nobody actually uses them.

So remove the macros and leave in place appropriate branches of the conditional code.

---
 Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt | 12 ++++------
 drivers/video/console/vgacon.c   | 49 ----------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

index 70acfbf399eb..2ea8968b64a6 100644
@@ -2,13 +2,11 @@ Software cursor for VGA    by Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
 ============    and Martin Mares <[email protected]>
 
    Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally, you
-can set the size of hardware cursor (and also work around some ugly bugs in
-those miserable Trident cards--see #define TRIDENT_GLITCH in drivers/video/
-vgacon.c). You can now play a few new tricks:  you can make your cursor look
-like a non-blinking red block, make it inverse background of the character it's
-over or to highlight that character and still choose whether the original
-hardware cursor should remain visible or not.  There may be other things I have
-never thought of.
+can set the size of hardware cursor. You can now play a few new tricks:  you
+can make your cursor look like a non-blinking red block, make it inverse
+background of the character it's over or to highlight that character and still
+choose whether the original hardware cursor should remain visible or not.
+There may be other things I have never thought of.
 
    The cursor appearance is controlled by a "<ESC>[?1;2;3c" escape sequence
 where 1, 2 and 3 are parameters described below. If you omit any of them,

2.10.1

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

vgacon: remove prehistoric macros

to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-next branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From b9c8b7fc252cd8e7e629f14bb8a68d54889470da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 11:18:39 +0200
Subject: vgacon: remove prehistoric macros

These macros:
* CAN_LOAD_EGA_FONTS
* CAN_LOAD_PALETTE
* TRIDENT_GLITCH
* VGA_CAN_DO_64KB
* SLOW_VGA
are either always set or always unset. They come from the linux 2.1 times. And given nobody switched them to some configurable options, I assume nobody actually uses them.

So remove the macros and leave in place appropriate branches of the conditional code.

---
 Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt | 12 ++++------
 drivers/video/console/vgacon.c   | 49 ----------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

index 70acfbf399eb..2ea8968b64a6 100644
@@ -2,13 +2,11 @@ Software cursor for VGA    by Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
 ============    and Martin Mares <[email protected]>
 
    Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally, you
-can set the size of hardware cursor (and also work around some ugly bugs in
-those miserable Trident cards--see #define TRIDENT_GLITCH in drivers/video/
-vgacon.c). You can now play a few new tricks:  you can make your cursor look
-like a non-blinking red block, make it inverse background of the character it's
-over or to highlight that character and still choose whether the original
-hardware cursor should remain visible or not.  There may be other things I have
-never thought of.
+can set the size of hardware cursor. You can now play a few new tricks:  you
+can make your cursor look like a non-blinking red block, make it inverse
+background of the character it's over or to highlight that character and still
+choose whether the original hardware cursor should remain visible or not.
+There may be other things I have never thought of.
 
    The cursor appearance is controlled by a "<ESC>[?1;2;3c" escape sequence
 where 1, 2 and 3 are parameters described below. If you omit any of them,

2.10.1