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From: arvindY <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: ftgpio010: Fix platform_get_irq's error checking
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 22:19:25 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A22D995.9010802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdZCh-YrsEM+f2XbpYtPuTN_DtEFUFUb-DJjZ-0=EQ5FMA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Linus,

On Saturday 02 December 2017 09:00 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi Arvind,
>
> thanks for the patch!
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The platform_get_irq() function returns negative if an error occurs.
>> zero or positive number on success. platform_get_irq() error checking
>> for zero is not correct.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
> (...)
>>          irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
>> -       if (!irq)
>> -               return -EINVAL;
>> +       if (irq < 0)
>> +               return irq;
> This is wrong.
> For an in-depth explanation why irq 0 in not valid, see:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/470820/
Thank you for sharing this Articles. It's really helpful.
>
> It should be:
>
> if (irq <= 0)
>    return irq ? irq : -EINVAL;
>
> Please update and resubmit. If you have more patches like this,
> correct them too.
I will resubmit patch.
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
Thanks,
arvind

      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-02 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-30 14:12 [PATCH] gpio: ftgpio010: Fix platform_get_irq's error checking Arvind Yadav
2017-12-02 15:30 ` Linus Walleij
2017-12-02 16:49   ` arvindY [this message]

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