[PATCH v2 6/6] serial: 8250: make port operations work on struct uart_8250_port

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Jiri,

> Date: 2026-10-13 12:15:35+0200
> From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby at kernel.org>
>
> On 13. 10. 26, 12:00, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > First, it is used in the kernel quite a few times already
> > > > > [1]. Second, while it is sort of c++ism (and I like to use modern c++), it
> > > > > makes the life of the variable a lot more obvious.
> > > > > 
> > > > > [1] eg. see output of: rg -U -C 5 '}\n+\s+struct .*\*.*=' drivers/
> > > > 
> > > > (you made me to install something I haven't heard about, it's better to use
> > > >    `git grep` though)
> > > 
> > > rg is order of magnitude faster (searches in parallel). More importantly in
> > > this case, supports multiline matches. (And respects .git ignores.)
> > 
> > Isn't `git grep` fast enough due to looking into index and not into the files?
> > `rg` may not look at the Git index, right? So I may not to use an arbitrary
> > hash without checking it out first.
> 
> Of course rg is not git grep.
> 
> > > > Note excluded __free() if I get regexp correctly
> > > > 
> > > > $ rg -U -l '}\n+\s+struct .*\*[^)]*=' drivers/ | less
> > > > drivers/ufs/host/ufs-qcom.c
> > > ...
> > > > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_psp.c
> > > > 
> > > > So, less than dozen of drivers doing wrong is not an argument, try something
> > > > better. But thanks, I will check and address this in some of the above.
> > > 
> > > Well, it's only an example of a declaration after a previous opening brace
> > > "{" -- this one turned out to be easy to search for. There is a lot of more,
> > > of course. kernel/ included.
> > 
> > Please, provide a better search line, I will look at that. For now it's just
> > a hypothetical assumption, I am afraid.
> 
> I am not much into writing a semi-parser at this point :D. This'd be a task
> eg. for clang's ASTMatcher.

You may check grepc(1) --provided in man-pages.git--, which does have
some code for searching different kinds of code.  You may need to tweak
some regex produced by the backend grepc_c(1), but it should be
possible.


Cheers,
Alex

> 
> thanks,
> -- 
> js
> suse labs
> 

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