[PATCH] serial: don't register CIR serial ports

[Maciej S. Szmigiero]

CIR type serial ports aren't real serial ports.

This is just a way to prevent legacy 8250 serial
driver from probing and eventually binding some
resources.

Since in current state such ports aren't providing
any real functionality and it is not possible
to change their type via setserial/ioctl(TIOCSSERIAL)
(due to UPF_FIXED_PORT flag set on them)
it is simpler and cleaner to not register them at all
with serial core.

Print a short message in this case so it is known
to user what has happened.

This way checks for PORT_8250_CIR in serial port
callbacks can be removed too, since they won't
ever be called.

Signed-off-by: Maciej Szmigiero <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This replaces "serial: don't announce CIR serial ports"
submission.

 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c |   38 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
index 37fff12..b843b83 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
@@ -2129,9 +2129,6 @@ int serial8250_do_startup(struct uart_port *port)
 	unsigned char lsr, iir;
 	int retval;
 
-	if (port->type == PORT_8250_CIR)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	if (!port->fifosize)
 		port->fifosize = uart_config[port->type].fifo_size;
 	if (!up->tx_loadsz)
@@ -2858,14 +2855,8 @@ static void serial8250_release_port(struct uart_port *port)
 static int serial8250_request_port(struct uart_port *port)
 {
 	struct uart_8250_port *up = up_to_u8250p(port);
-	int ret;
-
-	if (port->type == PORT_8250_CIR)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
-	ret = serial8250_request_std_resource(up);
 
-	return ret;
+	return serial8250_request_std_resource(up);
 }
 
 static int fcr_get_rxtrig_bytes(struct uart_8250_port *up)
@@ -3013,9 +3004,6 @@ static void serial8250_config_port(struct uart_port *port, int flags)
 	struct uart_8250_port *up = up_to_u8250p(port);
 	int ret;
 
-	if (port->type == PORT_8250_CIR)
-		return;
-
 	/*
 	 * Find the region that we can probe for.  This in turn
 	 * tells us whether we can probe for the type of port.
@@ -3889,13 +3877,25 @@ int serial8250_register_8250_port(struct uart_8250_port *up)
 		if (up->dl_write)
 			uart->dl_write = up->dl_write;
 
-		if (serial8250_isa_config != NULL)
-			serial8250_isa_config(0, &uart->port,
-					&uart->capabilities);
+		if (uart->port.type != PORT_8250_CIR) {
+			if (serial8250_isa_config != NULL)
+				serial8250_isa_config(0, &uart->port,
+						&uart->capabilities);
 
-		ret = uart_add_one_port(&serial8250_reg, &uart->port);
-		if (ret == 0)
-			ret = uart->port.line;
+			ret = uart_add_one_port(&serial8250_reg,
+						&uart->port);
+			if (ret == 0)
+				ret = uart->port.line;
+		} else {
+			pr_info("%s%sskipping CIR port at 0x%lx / 0x%llx, IRQ %d\n",
+				uart->port.dev ? dev_name(uart->port.dev) : "",
+				uart->port.dev ? ": " : "",
+				uart->port.iobase,
+				(unsigned long long)uart->port.mapbase,
+				uart->port.irq);
+
+			ret = 0;
+		}
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&serial_mutex);
 

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