From 2cfe6c4ac7ee0193780d655c5dea5a73acae1f46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:55:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] printk: Fix return of braille_register_console()
Some of my configs I test with have CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE set.
When I started testing against v3.11-rc4 my console went bonkers. Using
ktest to bisect the issue, it came down to:
commit bbeddf52a "printk: move braille console support into separate
braille.[ch] files"
Looking into the patch I found the problem. It's with the return of
braille_register_console(). As anything other than NULL is considered a
failure.
But for those of us that have CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE set but do not
define a "brl" or "brl=" on the command line, we still may want a
console that those with sight can still use.
Return NULL (success) if "brl" or "brl=" is not on the console line.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
kernel/printk/braille.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/printk/braille.c b/kernel/printk/braille.c
index b51087fb9ace..276762f3a460 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/braille.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/braille.c
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ char *_braille_console_setup(char **str, char **brl_options)
pr_err("need port name after brl=\n");
else
*((*str)++) = 0;
- }
+ } else
+ return NULL;
return *str;
}
--
2.50.1