Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 5 authors, 2012-11-22

Re: [PATCH 1/4] OF: Add helper for matching against linux, stdout-path

From: Lothar Waßmann <hidden>
Date: 2012-11-22 05:33:13
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-serial

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

Hi,

Sascha Hauer writes:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:57:05PM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
quoted
From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

devicetrees may have a linux,stdout-path or stdout-path property
in the chosen node describing the console device. This adds a helper
function to match a device against this property and retrieve the options
so a driver can call add_preferred_console for a matching device.
[...]
quoted
+	if (!tmp)
+		return 0;
+
+	dn_stdout = of_find_node_by_path(tmp);
+
+	if (dn_stdout && dn_stdout == dn) {
+		is_stdout = 1;
+		tmp_option++;
+		*option = kstrdup(tmp_option, GFP_KERNEL);
+	}
+
+	of_node_put(dn_stdout);
dn_stdout may be NULL aswell.
which is handled gracefully by of_node_put()...


Lothar Waßmann
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