Looking at the existing serial drivers (esp. the 8250 derived variants) we see a common trend. They create a hardware specific port struct, which in turn contains a generic serial_port struct. The other trend, is that they all create some sort of shortcut to go through the hardware specific struct, to the serial_port struct, which has the basic in/out operations within. Looking for the serial_in and serial_out in several drivers shows this. Rather than let this continue, lets create a generic set of similar helper wrappers that can be used on a struct port, so we can eliminate bouncing out through hardware specific struct pointers just to come back into struct port where possible. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/serial_core.h | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h index c91ace7..72e0360 100644 --- a/include/linux/serial_core.h +++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h @@ -381,6 +381,16 @@ struct uart_port { void *private_data; /* generic platform data pointer */ }; +static inline int serial_port_in(struct uart_port *up, int offset) +{ + return up->serial_in(up, offset); +} + +static inline void serial_port_out(struct uart_port *up, int offset, int value) +{ + up->serial_out(up, offset, value); +} + /* * This is the state information which is persistent across opens. */ -- 1.7.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html