Regression: patch " hvc_console: display printk messages on console." causing infinite loop with 3.2-rc0 + Xen.

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 12:13:09PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:48:06 +0200 Greg KH <gregkh at suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 01:30:08AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > Hey Miche.
> > > 
> > > The git commit 361162459f62dc0826b82c9690a741a940f457f0:
> > > 
> > >     hvc_console: display printk messages on console.
> > > 
> > > is causing an infinite loop when booting Linux under Xen, as so:
> > 
> > Ick, not good, thanks for letting us know.
> 
> Indeed. I am wondering why it was put in a tree and sent to Linus without
> any Acks or even being replied to by anyone.  It appeared in the tty tree
> between Oct 14 and Oct 25 (while I was unfortunately on vacation).  If
> anyone had tried to boot this on any PowerPC server, it would have been
> immediately obvious (as it was when I booted Linus' tree last night).
> 
> And the original author expressed doubts as to his understanding of how
> it should all work anyway.
> 
> Just a little more care, please.
> 
> I would vote for reverting the original and having it resubmitted with
> corrections at some later date.

You are right, I will go do that, sorry for the problems.

greg k-h