[PATCH 092/100] xen/hvc: allow xenboot console to be used again

[Luis Henriques]

David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com> writes:

> On 11/10/13 11:42, Luis Henriques wrote:
>> 3.5.7.23 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> It's harmless to backport this, but it is only needed in 3.10 and later
> (unless you've backported d0380e6c).

Ups, you're right.  I'll drop this from the 3.5 queue.  Thanks!

Cheers,
-- 
Luis


>
>> From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>
>> 
>> 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 */
>>  
>
> David