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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] platform: make platform_get_irq_optional() optional
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:00:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220214140027.npw6ddrxklarb6wp@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdWi8gno_FBbc=AwsdRtDJik8_bANjQrrRtUOOBRjFN=KA@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello Geert,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 10:01:14AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Also IMHO, the dummy value handling is a red herring.  Contrary to
> optional clocks and resets, a missing optional interrupt does not
> always mean there is nothing to do: in case of polling, something
> else must definitely be done. 

Note this is exactly why I don't like this change. I'd even go so far
and claim that "a missing optional interrupt hardly ever means there is
nothing to do".

> So even if request_irq() would accept a dummy interrupt zero and just
> do nothing, it would give the false impression that that is all there
> is to do, while an actual check for zero with polling code handling
> may still need to be present, thus leading to more not less bugs.

Yes, a dummy irq value will just not be possible.

Best regards
Uwe

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-14 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20220212201631.12648-1-s.shtylyov@omp.ru>
2022-02-12 20:16 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] platform: make platform_get_irq_optional() optional Sergey Shtylyov
2022-02-14  7:13   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2022-02-14  9:01     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-02-14 14:00       ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2022-02-14 10:13     ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-02-14 13:56       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2022-02-14  8:54   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-02-14 10:43     ` Sergey Shtylyov

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