Re: [PATCH] earlycon: initialise baud field of earlycon device structure

[Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com>]

On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 08:46 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Eugeniy Paltsev
> <Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com> wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 14:26 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Eugeniy Paltsev
> > > <Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com> wrote:
> > > > [snip]
> > > > @@ -282,7 +283,15 @@ int __init of_setup_earlycon(const struct
> > > > earlycon_id *match,
> > > >                 }
> > > >         }
> > > > 
> > > > +       val = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "baud", NULL);
> > > 
> > > No, we already have a defined way to set the baud, we don't need
> > > a
> > > property in addition. Plus you didn't document it.
> > 
> > I guess by defined way to set the baud you mean setting baud after
> > device alias
> > in stdout-path property (like stdout-path = "serial:115200n8"),
> > right?
> > 
> > The idea was to reuse "baud" property from serial node to set the
> > earlycon baud:
> > 
> > chosen {
> >     ...
> >     stdout-path = &serial;
> > };
> > 
> > serial: uart@... {
> >     ...
> >     baud = <115200>;   /* Get baud from here */
> 
> "current-speed" is already defined for this purpose. If you want to
> add that, that's fine.
Ok, I'll add "current-speed".

> > };
> > 
> > > > +       if (val)
> > > > +               early_console_dev.baud = be32_to_cpu(*val);
> > > > +
> > > >         if (options) {
> > > > +               err = kstrtoul(options, 10, &baud);
> > > > +               if (!err)
> > > > +                       early_console_dev.baud = baud;
> > > 
> > > This seems fine to do here, but then we should also parse the
> > > other
> > > standard options here too. And we should make sure we're not
> > > doing it
> > > twice.
> > 
> > I added only baud parsing here because we parse only baud from
> > standard
> > options
> > when register_earlycon is used. (see parse_options function which
> > is
> > called
> > from register_earlycon)
> > 
> > But I can add other standard options parsing here (probably using
> > uart_parse_options + uart_set_options).
> > What do you think?
> 
> That seems fine as long as consoles can still have their own options.
Ok.

Should I also add standard options parsing to register_earlycon?
(as we parse only baud from standard options in register_earlycon)

> Rob
-- 
 Eugeniy Paltsev