> However, this time the lines with Vendor and Model info displayed
> as
> Vendor: C O N N E R
> with one space between all of the letters.
>
> This didn't reflect in the dmesg output - only on the console.
>
I see exactly the same thing. I also use the common trick of displaying all
kernel messages on /dev/tty9 and there it displays correctly.
The "Vendor", etc., line comes from print_inquiry in scsi.c. Only the lines
which use printk ("%c", ch) are weird.
I don't know why, though.