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serial/imx: let probing fail for the dt case without a valid alias

Message ID 1323936994-2250-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
State New
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Uwe Kleine-König Dec. 15, 2011, 8:16 a.m. UTC 
When the uart device is instantiated by dt but dt doesn't provide an
alias then better let probing fail instead of falling back to an
unrelated device id used for the line number and no platform data.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/imx.c |   13 ++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Shawn Guo Dec. 15, 2011, 9:08 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:16:34AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> When the uart device is instantiated by dt but dt doesn't provide an
> alias then better let probing fail instead of falling back to an
> unrelated device id used for the line number and no platform data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> ---

Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Shawn Guo Dec. 26, 2011, 1:56 a.m. UTC | #2 
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:16:34AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> When the uart device is instantiated by dt but dt doesn't provide an
> alias then better let probing fail instead of falling back to an
> unrelated device id used for the line number and no platform data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

I queued this for 3.3, and will send a pull-request to Greg.
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diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
index 75c159a..1c94218 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
@@ -1287,6 +1287,10 @@  static int serial_imx_resume(struct platform_device *dev)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_OF
+/*
+ * This function returns 1 iff pdev isn't a device instatiated by dt, 0 iff it
+ * could successfully get all information from dt or a negative errno.
+ */
 static int serial_imx_probe_dt(struct imx_port *sport,
 		struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
@@ -1296,7 +1300,8 @@  static int serial_imx_probe_dt(struct imx_port *sport,
 	int ret;
 
 	if (!np)
-		return -ENODEV;
+		/* no device tree device */
+		return 1;
 
 	ret = of_alias_get_id(np, "serial");
 	if (ret < 0) {
@@ -1319,7 +1324,7 @@  static int serial_imx_probe_dt(struct imx_port *sport,
 static inline int serial_imx_probe_dt(struct imx_port *sport,
 		struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
-	return -ENODEV;
+	return 1;
 }
 #endif
 
@@ -1354,8 +1359,10 @@  static int serial_imx_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ret = serial_imx_probe_dt(sport, pdev);
-	if (ret == -ENODEV)
+	if (ret > 0)
 		serial_imx_probe_pdata(sport, pdev);
+	else if (ret < 0)
+		goto free;
 
 	res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
 	if (!res) {