[PATCH 1/2] tty: serial_core: Add name field to uart_port struct

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com> wrote:
> Introduce a field to store name of uart_port that can be used to easily
> identify uart port instances on a system that has more than one uart

uart -> UART

> instance. The name is of the form ttyXN(eg. ttyS0, ttyAMA0,..) where N
> is number that particular uart instance.
> This field will be useful when printing debug info for a particular port
> or in register irqs with unique irq name. Port name is populated during

irq(s) -> IRQ(s)

> uart_add_one_port().

> +       snprintf(uport->name, sizeof(uport->name), "%s%d", drv->dev_name,
> +                drv->tty_driver->name_base + uport->line);

This is fragile. dev_name is defined as pointer, so, it would be any length.
So, better to use [devm_]kasprintf().

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko