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>
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