char: make some qemu_chr_fe skip if no driver

In most cases, front ends do not care about the side effect of
CharBackend, so we can simply skip the checks and call the qemu_chr_fe
functions even without associated CharDriver.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20161022095318.17775-20-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/hw/char/stm32f2xx_usart.c b/hw/char/stm32f2xx_usart.c
index 03ccc52384..8e9852b032 100644
--- a/hw/char/stm32f2xx_usart.c
+++ b/hw/char/stm32f2xx_usart.c
@@ -97,17 +97,13 @@ static uint64_t stm32f2xx_usart_read(void *opaque, hwaddr addr,
     case USART_SR:
         retvalue = s->usart_sr;
         s->usart_sr &= ~USART_SR_TC;
-        if (s->chr.chr) {
-            qemu_chr_fe_accept_input(&s->chr);
-        }
+        qemu_chr_fe_accept_input(&s->chr);
         return retvalue;
     case USART_DR:
         DB_PRINT("Value: 0x%" PRIx32 ", %c\n", s->usart_dr, (char) s->usart_dr);
         s->usart_sr |= USART_SR_TXE;
         s->usart_sr &= ~USART_SR_RXNE;
-        if (s->chr.chr) {
-            qemu_chr_fe_accept_input(&s->chr);
-        }
+        qemu_chr_fe_accept_input(&s->chr);
         qemu_set_irq(s->irq, 0);
         return s->usart_dr & 0x3FF;
     case USART_BRR:
@@ -152,11 +148,9 @@ static void stm32f2xx_usart_write(void *opaque, hwaddr addr,
     case USART_DR:
         if (value < 0xF000) {
             ch = value;
-            if (s->chr.chr) {
-                /* XXX this blocks entire thread. Rewrite to use
-                 * qemu_chr_fe_write and background I/O callbacks */
-                qemu_chr_fe_write_all(&s->chr, &ch, 1);
-            }
+            /* XXX this blocks entire thread. Rewrite to use
+             * qemu_chr_fe_write and background I/O callbacks */
+            qemu_chr_fe_write_all(&s->chr, &ch, 1);
             s->usart_sr |= USART_SR_TC;
             s->usart_sr &= ~USART_SR_TXE;
         }
@@ -212,10 +206,8 @@ static void stm32f2xx_usart_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
 {
     STM32F2XXUsartState *s = STM32F2XX_USART(dev);
 
-    if (s->chr.chr) {
-        qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers(&s->chr, stm32f2xx_usart_can_receive,
-                                 stm32f2xx_usart_receive, NULL, s, NULL);
-    }
+    qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers(&s->chr, stm32f2xx_usart_can_receive,
+                             stm32f2xx_usart_receive, NULL, s, NULL);
 }
 
 static void stm32f2xx_usart_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)