linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: serial: earlycon: Pass device-tree node

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:57:27 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Markuss Broks <markuss.broks@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: serial: earlycon: Pass device-tree node

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 11:04:24PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 4:41 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 05:28:18PM +0300, Markuss Broks wrote:
> > > Pass a pointer to device-tree node in case the driver probed from
> > > OF. This makes early console drivers able to fetch options from
> > > device-tree node properties.
> 
> ...
> 
> > > +     unsigned long node;
> >
> > That should not be an unsigned long, but rather an 'int'.  Something got
> > messed up, of_setup_earlycon() should be changed to reflect this before
> > propagating the error to other places in the kernel.
> 
> It's a pointer, but what puzzles me, why it can't be declared as a such:
> 
>  struct device_node *node;
> 
> ?

It should not be a pointer, trace things backwards, it comes from a call
to of_setup_earlycon() from early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout() which has
offset declared as an int, and then does:
	if (of_setup_earlycon(match, offset, options) == 0)

So why would it be a node?

> > And it's not really a "node" but an "offset", right?
> 
> Seems no.

Really?  What am I missing here?

confused,

greg k-h