[PATCH 3/8] console: factorise function to get the console by name

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On Sep 27, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:58:47AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>> On 10:50 Fri 27 Sep     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 09:14:13AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>>>> rename it to console_get_by_name
>>>> 
>>>> +struct console_device *console_get_by_name(const char *cname)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	struct console_device *cdev;
>>>> +	const char *target;
>>>> +
>>>> +	for_each_console(cdev) {
>>>> +		target = dev_id(&cdev->class_dev);
>>>> +		if (strcmp(cname, target))
>>>> +			continue;
>>>> +		if ((cdev->f_active & (CONSOLE_STDIN | CONSOLE_STDOUT))
>>>> +			return cdev;
>>>> +		return NULL;
>>>> +	}
>>>> +	return NULL;
>>>> +}
>>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(console_get_by_name);
>>> 
>>> I know this patch doesn't change the current behaviour, but a common
>>> function console_get_by_name() should return return the console by name
>>> regardless of whether it's active or not.
>> 
>> I change it behaviour later as now this function will check the console
>> feature
>> 
>> as the current implemetation do it too but in the wrong way
>>> 
>>> For the loadx code this would be a net win aswell. I think this code
>>> should not depend on an active console but the other way round: It
>>> should clear the CONSOLE_STDIN/CONSOLE_STDOUT during loadx operation.
>>> This way we could easily make sure there are no printf message garbling
>>> the line during transfers and still we could have console messages on
>>> other consoles.
>> 
>> patch 8 finaly clean it
> 
> ?
> 
> patch 8/8 is an atmel serial driver specific patch that changes nothing
> in this regard.
> 

it's patch 9 I forget to send this one

but put it on the git

> What I mean is that the loadx stuff should do a cdev->active = 0 so that
> during transfers printf is still possible without corrupting the
> transfers. This behaviour is not changed in this series.

yeah I agree

Best Regards,
J.


> 
> 
> Sascha
> 
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