commit f2b8dfd9e480c3db3bad0c25c590a5d11b31f4ef
author Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> Sun Mar 10 10:33:40 2013 -0400
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Tue Mar 12 08:53:23 2013 -0700
tree 564230f7fec965d093fbe56b6b902e3caf0ac273
parent 827aa0d36d486f359808c8fb931cf7a71011a09d

serial: 8250: Keep 8250.<xxxx> module options functional after driver rename

With commit 835d844d1 (8250_pnp: do pnp probe before legacy probe), the
8250 driver was renamed to 8250_core.  This means any existing usage of
the 8259.<xxxx> module parameters or as a kernel command line switch is
now broken, as the 8250_core driver doesn't parse options belonging to
something called "8250".

To solve this, we redefine the module options in a dummy function using
a redefined MODULE_PARAM_PREFX when built into the kernel.  In the case
where we're building as a module, we provide an alias to the old 8250
name.  The dummy function prevents compiler errors due to global variable
redefinitions that happen as part of the module_param_ macro expansions.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c
index 661096d..cf6a538 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c
@@ -3417,3 +3417,32 @@
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(probe_rsa, "Probe I/O ports for RSA");
 #endif
 MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR(TTY_MAJOR);
+
+#ifndef MODULE
+/* This module was renamed to 8250_core in 3.7.  Keep the old "8250" name
+ * working as well for the module options so we don't break people.  We
+ * need to keep the names identical and the convenient macros will happily
+ * refuse to let us do that by failing the build with redefinition errors
+ * of global variables.  So we stick them inside a dummy function to avoid
+ * those conflicts.  The options still get parsed, and the redefined
+ * MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX lets us keep the "8250." syntax alive.
+ *
+ * This is hacky.  I'm sorry.
+ */
+static void __used s8250_options(void)
+{
+#undef MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX
+#define MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX "8250."
+
+	module_param_cb(share_irqs, &param_ops_uint, &share_irqs, 0644);
+	module_param_cb(nr_uarts, &param_ops_uint, &nr_uarts, 0644);
+	module_param_cb(skip_txen_test, &param_ops_uint, &skip_txen_test, 0644);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA
+	__module_param_call(MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, probe_rsa,
+		&param_array_ops, .arr = &__param_arr_probe_rsa,
+		0444, -1);
+#endif
+}
+#else
+MODULE_ALIAS("8250");
+#endif