[U-Boot] [PATCH] dm: serial: Handle "stdout-path" with ":options" correctly

[Simon Glass]

Hi Bin,

On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 09:12, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> With commit f0921f5098d8 ("fdt: Sync up to the latest libfdt"),
> SiFive Unleashed board does not boot any more. This was due to
> the U-Boot local changes commit 77d7fff8cec2 ("fdt: Fix handling
> of paths with options in them") to libfdt/fdt_ro.c was dropped
> during the libfdt upgrade.
>
> From the history [1] it was mentioned that the U-Boot changes
> commit 77d7fff8cec2 ("fdt: Fix handling of paths with options in
> them") was rejected by libfdt upstream, hence we need find another
> way to fix the things.
>
> This commit uses another method, by updating serial_check_stdout()
> directly to handle the situation of "stdout-path" with ":options".
> A simpler way is to change the logic in fdtdec_get_chosen_node()
> to do similar thing, but I feel that not every property in chosen
> node may have the option in them, hence it would make more sense
> to do the special handling in serial_check_stdout() directly.
>
> [1]: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/462756/
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
>
> ---
>
>  drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Would it be possible to export serial_check_stdout() so we can add
tests? Or perhaps we should have tests for all of
serial_find_console_or_panic() since it is getting more and more
complicated and is not documented well.

Regards,
Simon