Re: [PATCH v2 net] ptp: ocp: adjust serial port symlink creation

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 01:39:21PM +0100, Vadim Fedorenko wrote:
> On 10/05/2024 12:13, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 11:04:05AM +0000, Vadim Fedorenko wrote:
> > > The commit b286f4e87e32 ("serial: core: Move tty and serdev to be children
> > > of serial core port device") changed the hierarchy of serial port devices
> > > and device_find_child_by_name cannot find ttyS* devices because they are
> > > no longer directly attached. Add some logic to restore symlinks creation
> > > to the driver for OCP TimeCard.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: b286f4e87e32 ("serial: core: Move tty and serdev to be children of serial core port device")
> > > Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
> > > ---
> > > v2:
> > >   add serial/8250 maintainers
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/ptp/ptp_ocp.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
> > >   1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman.  You have sent him
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> > to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept
> > writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was
> > created.  Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem
> > in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux
> > kernel tree.
> > 
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> 
> Hi Greg!
> 
> Just gentle ping, I'm still looking for better solution for serial
> device lookup in TimeCard driver.

See my comment on the other patch in this thread.

In short, you shouldn't need to do any of this.

thanks,

greg k-h