The variable preferred_console is used only inside register_console() and its semantics is boolean. It is negative when no console has been made preferred.
Make it static bool and rename to has_preferred. Renaming was suggested by Peter Hurley Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rost...@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.maka...@linaro.org> --- kernel/printk/printk.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index 2984fb0f0257..80bc1b72d03d 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -271,7 +271,6 @@ static struct console *exclusive_console; static struct console_cmdline console_cmdline[MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES]; static int selected_console = -1; -static int preferred_console = -1; int console_set_on_cmdline; EXPORT_SYMBOL(console_set_on_cmdline); @@ -2409,6 +2408,7 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon) unsigned long flags; struct console *bcon = NULL; struct console_cmdline *c; + static bool has_preferred; if (console_drivers) for_each_console(bcon) @@ -2435,15 +2435,15 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon) if (console_drivers && console_drivers->flags & CON_BOOT) bcon = console_drivers; - if (preferred_console < 0 || bcon || !console_drivers) - preferred_console = selected_console; + if (!has_preferred || bcon || !console_drivers) + has_preferred = selected_console >= 0; /* * See if we want to use this console driver. If we * didn't select a console we take the first one * that registers here. */ - if (preferred_console < 0) { + if (!has_preferred) { if (newcon->index < 0) newcon->index = 0; if (newcon->setup == NULL || @@ -2451,7 +2451,7 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon) newcon->flags |= CON_ENABLED; if (newcon->device) { newcon->flags |= CON_CONSDEV; - preferred_console = 0; + has_preferred = true; } } } @@ -2486,7 +2486,7 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon) newcon->flags |= CON_ENABLED; if (i == selected_console) { newcon->flags |= CON_CONSDEV; - preferred_console = selected_console; + has_preferred = true; } break; } -- 2.12.0