tree c149a1381a41f5581861d9c463182a371a2ad12e
parent 927353a75602dd97144352f53177e18093fdd198
author Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> 1331251933 -0500
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1331326076 -0800

serial: use serial_port_in/out vs serial_in/out in 8250

The serial_in and serial_out helpers are expecting to operate
on an 8250_port struct.  These in turn go after the contained
normal port struct which actually has the actual in/out accessors.

But what is happening in some cases, is that a function is passed
in a port struct, and it runs container_of to get the 8250_port
struct, and then it uses serial_in/out helpers on that.  But when
you do, it goes full circle, since it jumps back inside the 8250_port
to find the contained port struct (which we already knew!).

So, if we are operating in a scope where we know the struct port,
then use the serial_port_in/out helpers and avoid the bouncing
around.  If we don't have the struct port handy, and it isn't
worth making a local for it, then just leave things as-is which
uses the serial_in/out helpers that will resolve the 8250_port
onto the struct port.

Mostly, gcc figures this out on its own -- so this doesn't bring to
the table any revolutionary runtime delta.  However, it is somewhat
misleading to always hammer away on 8250 structs, when the actual
underlying property isn't at all 8250 specific -- and this change
makes that clear.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>