Re: [PATCH] braille-console: Fix value returned by _braille_console_setup

[Petr Mladek]

On Sun 2017-03-19 15:37:26, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> commit bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into
> separate braille.[ch] files") introduced _braille_console_setup()
> to outline the braille initialization code.  There was however some
> confusion over the value it was supposed to return. commit 2cfe6c4ac7ee
> ("printk: Fix return of braille_register_console()") tried to fix it
> but failed to.
> 
> This fixes and documents the returned value according to the use
> in printk.c: non-zero return means a parsing error, and thus this
> console configuration should be ignored.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Index: linux-4.10/kernel/printk/braille.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-4.10.orig/kernel/printk/braille.c
> +++ linux-4.10/kernel/printk/braille.c
> @@ -2,12 +2,13 @@
>  
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
>  #include <linux/console.h>
> +#include <linux/errno.h>
>  #include <linux/string.h>
>  
>  #include "console_cmdline.h"
>  #include "braille.h"
>  
> -char *_braille_console_setup(char **str, char **brl_options)
> +int _braille_console_setup(char **str, char **brl_options)
>  {
>  	if (!strncmp(*str, "brl,", 4)) {
>  		*brl_options = "";
> @@ -15,14 +16,15 @@ char *_braille_console_setup(char **str,
>  	} else if (!strncmp(*str, "brl=", 4)) {
>  		*brl_options = *str + 4;
>  		*str = strchr(*brl_options, ',');
> -		if (!*str)
> +		if (!*str) {
>  			pr_err("need port name after brl=\n");
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +		}
>  		else

This "else" has become superfluous because there is return now.

>  			*((*str)++) = 0;
> -	} else
> -		return NULL;
> +	}
>  
> -	return *str;
> +	return 0;
>  }

Otherwise, the patch looks fine to me. With it, the logic is
exactly the same as before the commit bbeddf52adc1b4207674ab
("printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch]
files") that broke it.

With the superfluous "else" removed:

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>

Best Regards,
Petr