[PATCH] serial: imx: Fix for non-devicetree boards

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu Sep 4 22:48:45 PDT 2014


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:10:03AM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Commit 3843bfd0ab77eaf125ca617922927b61fc8ded74
> "serial: imx: Determine device name from device tree"
> broke this driver for non-devicetree boards, since
> of_alias_get may not be called with a NULL pointer
> as first argument.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de>

Applied, thanks.

Damn, I missed this patch in my inbox, otherwise it would have been in
the last release.

Now it's in the stable/2014.09 branch.

Sascha

> ---
>  drivers/serial/serial_imx.c | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/serial/serial_imx.c b/drivers/serial/serial_imx.c
> index 474bfaf..e379f29 100644
> --- a/drivers/serial/serial_imx.c
> +++ b/drivers/serial/serial_imx.c
> @@ -338,9 +338,11 @@ static int imx_serial_probe(struct device_d *dev)
>  	cdev->flush = imx_serial_flush;
>  	cdev->setbrg = imx_serial_setbaudrate;
>  	cdev->linux_console_name = "ttymxc";
> -	devname = of_alias_get(dev->device_node);
> -	if (devname)
> -		cdev->devname = xstrdup(devname);
> +	if (dev->device_node) {
> +		devname = of_alias_get(dev->device_node);
> +		if (devname)
> +			cdev->devname = xstrdup(devname);
> +	}
>  
>  	imx_serial_init_port(cdev);
>  
> -- 
> 2.0.1
> 
> 

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