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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c: handle a negative return value
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:46:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163486812.28401.42.camel@earth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061113164256.805a7497.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 16:42 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>         pin  = find_isa_irq_pin(8, mp_INT);
> +       if (pin == -1) {
> +               printk(KERN_ERR "unlock_ExtINT_logic:
> find_isa_irq_pin()
> +                               "failed\n");
> +               return;
> +       }
>         apic = find_isa_irq_apic(8, mp_INT);
> -       if (pin == -1)
> +       if (apic == -1) {
> +               printk(KERN_ERR "unlock_ExtINT_logic:
> find_isa_irq_apic()
> +                               "failed\n");
>                 return;
> +       } 

as i mentioned it in my mail yesterday, if find_isa_irq_apic() returns
-1 then find_isa_irq_pin() has to return -1 too. But this is obscure and
needs to be documented at least - and your patch is good for
documentation purposes too :-)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>

	Ingo


      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-14  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-12 17:48 [2.6 patch] arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c: handle a negative return value Adrian Bunk
2006-11-13  8:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-14  0:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-14  6:46   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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