We currently rely on some pretty fragile comparison by name to
identify whether a serial port being configured is identical
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
The various functions to add a port used to return port->name, and
the callers would immediately iterate all registered ports to "find"
the one just created by comparing that return value with ... port->name.
This is a waste of cycles and code. Instead, have those functions
return "port" directly.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
