[PATCH] of: support passing console options with stdout-path

[Grant Likely]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 02:58:54PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
>> > +           len = strchrnul(path, ':') - path;
>> > +
>> >             for_each_property_of_node(of_aliases, pp) {
>> >                     if (strlen(pp->name) == len && !strncmp(pp->name, path, len)) {
>> >                             np = of_find_node_by_path(pp->value);
>>
>> Can you add a testcase to drivers/of/unittests.c for this new path
>> parsing? Then we know it's correct!
>
> Will do.
>
>> > @@ -1830,8 +1835,12 @@ void of_alias_scan(void * (*dt_alloc)(u64 size, u64 align))
>> >                     name = of_get_property(of_chosen, "linux,stdout-path", NULL);
>> >             if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC) && !name)
>> >                     name = of_get_property(of_aliases, "stdout", NULL);
>> > -           if (name)
>> > +           if (name) {
>> >                     of_stdout = of_find_node_by_path(name);
>> > +                   of_stdout_options = strchr(name, ':');
>> > +                   if (of_stdout_options != NULL)
>> > +                           of_stdout_options++;
>> > +           }
>>
>> Not so good. The ':' should actually be a generic part of
>> of_find_node_by_path(), it doesn't have to be limited to stdout parsing.
>> There are other places that would use it. I would add a second,
>> optional, argument to of_find_node_by_path() that will update a pointer
>> to the arguments after the ':'.
>
> So, I agree this would be nicer...
>
> However, I'm counting 157 callers of this function outside of
> drivers/of and 43 inside. Any chance you'd let me get away with a
> separate of_find_extra_options_by_path()?

I'd rather not. It is a trivial change and can be pretty much done
mechanically. Something like (I think; I always have to look up the
sed syntax):

sed s/of_find_node_by_path\((.*)\)/of_find_node_by_path\(\1, NULL\)

If it turns out to be really painful, then I'll relent, but I'd like
you to at least try! :-)

g.