On Thursday, March 16, 2017 5:56:53 PM CET Vignesh R wrote: > Using dev_name() as irq name during request_irq() might be misleading in > case of serial over PCI. Therefore use a better alternative name for > identifying serial port irqs as "serial" appended with serial_index of > the port. This ensures that "serial" string is always present in irq > name while port index will help in distinguishing b/w different ports. > > Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx> > --- > > Based on top of tty-next. > > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 10 +++++++++- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c > index f83b69f30987..78bf621d6827 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c > @@ -213,12 +213,20 @@ static int serial_link_irq_chain(struct uart_8250_port *up) > > ret = 0; > } else { > + char *irqname = kmalloc(20, GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!irqname) { > + spin_unlock_irq(&i->lock); > + return -ENOMEM; > + } > + snprintf(irqname, 20, > + "serial%d", serial_index(&up->port)); kasprintf()? Also, you need to free the memory after free_irq(). Arnd -- 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