Bug#690727: linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae: user space serial console messages held back on HS20 blade until qla2xxx is loaded

[Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>]

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:

> On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 20:44 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> 
>> This is an issue on IBM HS20 blades with serial over LAN console.  In short,
>> kernel messages get through all right, but user space messages are buffered
>> until the qla2xxx FC HBA driver module is loaded.  Everything is right if I
>> reverse the order of the two console parameters, making /dev/console refer
>> to the tty0 virtual console.  For debugging, I made the following changes:
>
> Please test Linux 3.5 (as packaged in experimental) or 3.6.

Forgot to say that I've already partially tested 3.6 (minimal config, no
modules, no qla2xxx driver): no user space console at all.  I couldn't
test whether loading the module eventually activates it, but the problem
definitely seems to be there.  I'll fully test the packaged 3.5 shortly.
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Thanks,
Feri.