From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Hurley Subject: [PATCH v3 -next 06/11] serial: 8250_early: Fix setup() error code Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 16:27:17 -0400 Message-ID: <1425932842-21812-7-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> References: <1425932842-21812-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1425932842-21812-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Andrew Morton , Jiri Slaby , Rob Herring , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Peter Hurley List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org If parsing failed to decode a valid uart addr, return -ENODEV instead of success. Although setup_earlycon() will detect the failure anyway (because the write() method has not been set), that behavior is not obvious and should not be relied on. Acked-by: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c index 1701d00..b199c10 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static int __init early_serial8250_setup(struct earlycon_device *device, const char *options) { if (!(device->port.membase || device->port.iobase)) - return 0; + return -ENODEV; if (!device->baud) { struct uart_port *port = &device->port; -- 2.3.1