Patch "doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'" has been added to the 3.8-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'

to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     doc-kernel-parameters-document-console-hvc-n.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:54:09 -0500
Subject: doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f upstream.

Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the
hvc driver.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
 			UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
 			switching to the matching ttyS device later.  The
 			options are the same as for ttyS, above.
+		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
+			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
 
                 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
                 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.8/doc-kernel-parameters-document-console-hvc-n.patch
queue-3.8/doc-xen-mention-earlyprintk-xen-in-the-documentation.patch
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