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

From: Vignesh R
Date: Thu Mar 23 2017 - 08:15:43 EST




On Thursday 23 March 2017 12:15 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx> 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().
>

Ok, will you use kasprintf() (and corresponding kfree()) as device is
not yet allocated at this stage to use devm_*.

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Regards
Vignesh