From: Kristoffer Glembo <kristoffer@gaisler.com>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [OOPS] apbuart.c: Two problems related to grlib_apbuart_configure()
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:11:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE90339.8080304@gaisler.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikatJDpPHw8WeE7XwLVgeg4A1Atd2ARoJxomzzl@mail.gmail.com>
Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Miguel Ojeda
> <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found two problems using the Simics' sunfire target, so maybe the
>> following does not occur in real machines.
>>
>> 1. At grlib_apbuart_configure() in apbuart.c, prop can be NULL if
>> "clock-frequency" doesn't exist in the OF tree:
>>
>> /* Get bus frequency */
>> rp = of_find_node_by_path("/");
>> rp = of_get_next_child(rp, NULL);
>> prop = of_get_property(rp, "clock-frequency", NULL);
>> freq_khz = *prop;
>>
>> 2. In addition, apbuart.c does not check if there aren't any ports
>> configured after calls to grlib_apbuart_configure(), so other oops will
>> occur if no port was configured (e.g. uart_set_options() because of
>> port->ops).
>>
>> In order to solve that, I added a check after both of the calls to
>> grlib_apbuart_configure().
>>
>> The patch that I provide below prevents both problems in the Simics'
>> sunfire target.
>>
>> Tested against 2.6.33.3. Please review.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Thanks for the patch, it looks fine to me.
Acked-by: Kristoffer Glembo <kristoffer@gaisler.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-11 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-08 21:58 [PATCH] [OOPS] apbuart.c: Two problems related to grlib_apbuart_configure() Miguel Ojeda
2010-05-10 13:20 ` Miguel Ojeda
2010-05-11 7:11 ` Kristoffer Glembo [this message]
2010-05-11 13:38 ` Miguel Ojeda
2010-05-11 13:42 ` Kristoffer Glembo
2010-05-20 19:52 ` [alternative-merged] serial-apbuartc-fix-two-problems-related-to-grlib_apbuart_configure.patch removed from -mm tree Miguel Ojeda
2010-05-20 20:09 ` Miguel Ojeda
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