Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] serial: core: Rename preferred console handling for match and update

[Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>]

On Tue 2024-06-18 07:54:50, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> We are now matching and updating the preferred console, not adding it.
> Let's update the naming accordingly to avoid confusion.
> 
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_base_bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_base_bus.c
> @@ -304,7 +305,7 @@ int serial_base_add_preferred_console(struct uart_driver *drv,

I was curious whether this patch renamed everything. And it seems
that it did not rename serial_base_add_preferred_console().

>  	const char *port_match __free(kfree) = NULL;
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	ret = serial_base_add_prefcon(drv->dev_name, port->line);
> +	ret = serial_base_match_and_update_prefcon(drv->dev_name, port->line);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  

Honestly, I do not understand what are all these layers for.
Especially, serial_base_match_and_update_prefcon() looks suspicious:

static int serial_base_match_and_update_prefcon(const char *name, int idx)
{
	const char *char_match __free(kfree) = NULL;
	const char *nmbr_match __free(kfree) = NULL;
	int ret;

	/* Handle ttyS specific options */
	if (strstarts(name, "ttyS")) {
		/* No name, just a number */
		nmbr_match = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%i", idx);
		if (!nmbr_match)
			return -ENODEV;

		ret = serial_base_match_and_update_one_prefcon(nmbr_match, name, idx);
		if (ret)
			return ret;

		/* Sparc ttya and ttyb */
		ret = serial_base_add_sparc_console(name, idx);
		if (ret)
			return ret;
	}

	/* Handle the traditional character device name style console=ttyS0 */
	char_match = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s%i", name, idx);
	if (!char_match)
		return -ENOMEM;

	return serial_base_match_and_update_one_prefcon(char_match, name, idx);
}

It seems to try whether c->devname matches a number "X", or "ttySX".
It even tries the sparc-specific transformations in
serial_base_add_sparc_console()

But this is the original format which does _not_ include ":".
It never will be stored in c->devname and will never match.

I think that it has been the case even before this patchset.

I think that we should remove these layers and check just
the "DEVNAME:X.Y" format, aka "%s:%d.%d" [*].


[*] It would be nice to use the same printf format "%s:%d.%d"
    in both serial_base_device_init() and also in the functions
    matching the devname to make it clear that these are
    the same names. Heh, I just guess that these are the same
    names.

Best Regards,
Petr