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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: roel.kluin@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gianfar: irq_of_parse_and_map() error unnoticed
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:11:16 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090427.031116.43598009.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F0649C.8030908@gmail.com>

From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:52:44 +0200

> Not sure which irq_of_parse_and_map() is used, but I found definitions here:
> 
> vi arch/microblaze/kernel/irq.c +23
> vi arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c +727
> vi arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_32.c +33
> vi arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_64.c +59
> 
> They either return 0 or NO_IRQ - either defined 0, -1, 255 or INT_MAX.
> ------------------------------>8-------------8<---------------------------------
> priv->interruptTransmit, -Receive and -Error are unsigned, so the error path
> wasn't taken when irq_of_parse_and_map() returned an incorrect irq.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> 

This test is way too convoluted for my taste.

I would rather that the implementations of this interface
use a consistent value for errors.  Preferrably NO_IRQ.

Not applied.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-27 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-23 12:52 [PATCH] gianfar: irq_of_parse_and_map() error unnoticed Roel Kluin
2009-04-27 10:11 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-04-27 11:05   ` [PATCH 2/2] " Roel Kluin
2009-04-27 19:23     ` Andrew Morton

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