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

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 4:41 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh at linuxfoundation.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;

?

> And it's not really a "node" but an "offset", right?

Seems no.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko