Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] serial: core: Fix serial core controller port name to show controller id

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Aug 04 2023 - 00:21:00 EST


On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 03:18:42PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 08:42:12AM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > We are missing the serial core controller id for the serial core port
> > name. Let's fix the issue for sane sysfs output, and to avoid issues
> > addressing serial ports later on.
> >
> > And as we're now showing the controller id, the "ctrl" and "port" prefix
> > for the DEVNAME become useless, we can just drop them. Let's standardize on
> > DEVNAME:0 for controller name, where 0 is the controller id. And
> > DEVNAME:0.0 for port name, where 0.0 are the controller id and port id.
> >
> > This makes the sysfs output nicer, on qemu for example:
> >
> > $ ls /sys/bus/serial-base/devices
> > 00:04:0 serial8250:0 serial8250:0.2
> > 00:04:0.0 serial8250:0.1 serial8250:0.3
> >
> > Fixes: 84a9582fd203 ("serial: core: Start managing serial controllers to enable runtime PM")
> > Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch causes about 50% of my boot tests to fail because the console
> is no longer recognized. Reverting this patch fixes the problem.
> Bisect log attached.

Isn't fix already available?
7d695d83767c ("serial: core: Fix serial_base_match() after fixing controller port name")

(in tty/tty-linus)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko