Re: [RESEND PATCH] serial: samsung: fix device name

[Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>]

On 23/09/10 20:15, Darius Augulis wrote:
> Swap device and driver names in serial/samsung.c

This is far too short, please see the notes below on trying
to make this more informative.

> Signed-off-by: Darius Augulis <augulis.darius@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> This patch was submitted about 3 months ago, but still not merged.
> There was another similar patch from Joonyoung Shim
> <jy0922.shim@samsung.com> and was discussed here:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-serial&m=127416101222281&w=2.
> Joonyoung Shim acked my patch and other people on ARM mailing list
> acked it. The maintainer, Ben Dooks, still not responding for
> a long time. Another maintainer, Kukjin Kim, refused to merge
> it without Ben's review.
> I would like to ask somebody pick up this bugfix.

I belive last time this was brought up I asked about the affect
this has on the userspace. The following issues would be helpful
or essential to have noted in the header about the effect of this.

- Does it change the /dev name of the device? if so I would thinl
  carefully about applying it, as it would be a change in the way
  that userspace sees the kernel.

- Does it change the kernel output itself? A note on what diffeences
  can be seen in things like dmesg would be helpful.

- Are there any other side effects

- Why is this a bug? Maybe the previous points will explain what is
  going on, but if not, then a reasonably concise description of
  what is going on here.

>  drivers/serial/samsung.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/serial/samsung.c b/drivers/serial/samsung.c
> index b1156ba..25c0d0f 100644
> --- a/drivers/serial/samsung.c
> +++ b/drivers/serial/samsung.c
> @@ -883,10 +883,10 @@ static struct uart_ops s3c24xx_serial_ops = {
>  
>  static struct uart_driver s3c24xx_uart_drv = {
>  	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
> -	.dev_name	= "s3c2410_serial",
> +	.driver_name    = "s3c2410_serial",
>  	.nr		= CONFIG_SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS,
>  	.cons		= S3C24XX_SERIAL_CONSOLE,
> -	.driver_name	= S3C24XX_SERIAL_NAME,
> +	.dev_name       = S3C24XX_SERIAL_NAME,
>  	.major		= S3C24XX_SERIAL_MAJOR,
>  	.minor		= S3C24XX_SERIAL_MINOR,
>  };
> 
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