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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [DRIVER CORE] platform_get_irq*(): return NO_IRQ on error
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:26:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060105172655.GA15968@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43BD534E.8050701@arcom.com>

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:11:42PM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> platform_get_irq*() cannot return 0 on error as 0 is a valid IRQ on some
> platforms, return NO_IRQ (-1) instead.

This change would require an audit of the users of these functions.
Could you check whether this is going to cause them any problems?

> Index: linux-2.6-working/drivers/base/platform.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-working.orig/drivers/base/platform.c	2006-01-05 16:49:23.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-2.6-working/drivers/base/platform.c	2006-01-05 17:10:18.000000000 +0000
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
>  {
>  	struct resource *r = platform_get_resource(dev, IORESOURCE_IRQ, num);
>  
> -	return r ? r->start : 0;
> +	return r ? r->start : NO_IRQ;
>  }
>  
>  /**
> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
>  {
>  	struct resource *r = platform_get_resource_byname(dev, IORESOURCE_IRQ, name);
>  
> -	return r ? r->start : 0;
> +	return r ? r->start : NO_IRQ;
>  }
>  
>  /**


-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-05 17:11 [DRIVER CORE] platform_get_irq*(): return NO_IRQ on error David Vrabel
2006-01-05 17:26 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-01-05 17:37 ` Greg KH
2006-01-05 18:03   ` David Vrabel
2006-01-05 18:08     ` Greg KH
2006-01-19 17:49       ` [patch 0/2] driver core: platform_get_irq*(): return -ENXIO " David Vrabel
2006-01-19 17:52         ` [patch 1/2] " David Vrabel
2006-01-19 17:56         ` [patch 2/2] handle errors returned by platform_get_irq*() David Vrabel

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