linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] tty: serial/8250: Fix build warning in serial8250_probe

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Message-ID: <b9f715c0-082f-46a3-b332-d5f6bf53ad71@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 07:25:06 +0200
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
 Abinash Singh <abinashsinghlalotra@...il.com>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
 Sunil V L <sunilvl@...tanamicro.com>,
 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] tty: serial/8250: Fix build warning in
 serial8250_probe_acpi()

On 06. 08. 25, 9:01, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Note how serial8250_register_8250_port() ands up just copying
> individual members of the passed uart_8250_port structure into
> the global array of the same type, so one way of addressing
> this would be to use a structure for initialization that only
> contains a subset of the uart_8250_port members and can still
> be allocated on the stack, or possibly be constant.

Yes:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/f84c2ee3-77b4-41c4-8517-26dfb44a2276@kernel.org/

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js
suse labs