While reviewing an i2c driver for efm32 that needs a similar property Wolfram Sang pointed out that "location" is a too generic name for something that is efm32 specific. So add an appropriate namespace and fall back to the generic name in case of failure. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c index 0eb5b5673ede..028582e924a5 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c @@ -671,7 +671,10 @@ static int efm32_uart_probe_dt(struct platform_device *pdev, if (!np) return 1; - ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "location", &location); + ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "efm32,location", &location); + if (ret) + /* fall back to old and (wrongly) generic property "location" */ + ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "location", &location); if (!ret) { if (location > 5) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "invalid location\n"); -- 1.9.0 -- 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