[PATCH 025/173] parisc: pass through \t to early (iodc) console

[Willy Tarreau]

2.6.27.59-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit d9b68e5e88248bb24fd4e455588bea1d56108fd6 upstream.

The firmware handles '\t' internally, so stop trying to emulate it
(which, incidentally, had a bug in it.)

Fixes a really weird hang at bootup in rcu_bootup_announce, which,
as far as I can tell, is the first printk in the core kernel to use
a tab as the first character.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c
index 4c247e0..df971fa 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c
@@ -1123,7 +1123,6 @@ static char __attribute__((aligned(64))) iodc_dbuf[4096];
  */
 int pdc_iodc_print(const unsigned char *str, unsigned count)
 {
-	static int posx;        /* for simple TAB-Simulation... */
 	unsigned int i;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
@@ -1133,19 +1132,12 @@ int pdc_iodc_print(const unsigned char *str, unsigned count)
 			iodc_dbuf[i+0] = '\r';
 			iodc_dbuf[i+1] = '\n';
 			i += 2;
-			posx = 0;
 			goto print;
-		case '\t':
-			while (posx & 7) {
-				iodc_dbuf[i] = ' ';
-				i++, posx++;
-			}
-			break;
 		case '\b':	/* BS */
-			posx -= 2;
+			i--; /* overwrite last */
 		default:
 			iodc_dbuf[i] = str[i];
-			i++, posx++;
+			i++;
 			break;
 		}
 	}


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