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.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c | 12 ++----------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
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;
}
}
--
1.7.0.1
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