[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "xen/hvc: allow xenboot console to be used again" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    xen/hvc: allow xenboot console to be used again

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.11.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From ee75263438524e9831d2b30038cbd47baa113523 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 19:00:49 +0100
Subject: xen/hvc: allow xenboot console to be used again

commit a9fbf4d591da6cd1d3eaab826c7c15f77fc8f6a3 upstream.

Commit d0380e6c3c0f6edb986d8798a23acfaf33d5df23 (early_printk:
consolidate random copies of identical code) added in 3.10 introduced
a check for con->index == -1 in early_console_register().

Initialize index to -1 for the xenboot console so earlyprintk=xen
works again.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
index 19843ec..6fe7c6c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
@@ -636,6 +636,7 @@ struct console xenboot_console = {
 	.name		= "xenboot",
 	.write		= xenboot_write_console,
 	.flags		= CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_BOOT | CON_ANYTIME,
+	.index		= -1,
 };
 #endif	/* CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK */

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