From: Steven Rostedt Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 02:55:28 +0000 (-0400) Subject: printk: Fix return of braille_register_console() X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~5591 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2cfe6c4ac7ee0193780d655c5dea5a73acae1f46;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git 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 Acked-by: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- 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; }