Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] serial: core: Rename preferred console handling for match and update

[Tony Lindgren]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 02:08:40PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Wed 2024-06-19 10:17:46, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 07:39:04AM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 03:51:44PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > > It seems to try whether c->devname matches a number "X", or "ttySX".
> > > > It even tries the sparc-specific transformations in
> > > > serial_base_add_sparc_console()
> > > > 
> > > > But this is the original format which does _not_ include ":".
> > > > It never will be stored in c->devname and will never match.
> > > 
> > > Good catch, this won't do anything now with console_setup()
> > > checking for ":" for deferred consoles. So we should revert commit
> > > a0f32e2dd998 ("serial: core: Handle serial console options").
> > 
> > Heh actually we can revert a lot more, basically leaving only
> > the renamed serial_base_match_and_update_preferred_console().
> 
> I wonder if it would be cleaner to revert all patches adding
> the feature and then add back just the minimalist solution.

Yeah let's do that. Otherwise it's hard to see what's going on :)

Regards,

Tony