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

[Luis Henriques]

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-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.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-3.5.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 500154e7d8977c370e877dc5df224179bbe708a8 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: [PATCH] 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: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques 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 944eaeb..78873df 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
@@ -634,6 +634,7 @@ 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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