linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: Don't call bmdma

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:04:10 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: Don't call bmdma_stop on non DMA capable
	controllers


> We could have done it for interrupts too. A "struct irqnum" that has a bit 
> that specifies "valid". That would work. But it tends to be painful, so it 
> really has to give you something more than "zero is disabled".
> 
> It's just not worth it.
> 
> And it's why I decreed, that the ONLY SANE THING is to just let people do 
> the obvious thing:
> 
> 	if (!dev->irq)
> 		return -ENODEV;
> 
> you don't have to know ANYTHING, and that code just works, and just looks 
> obvious. And you know what? If it causes a bit of pain for some platform 
> maintainer, I don't care one whit. Because it's obviously much better than 
> the alternatives.

I'd rather have dev->irq be a struct interrupt * :-) The NULL check
would then make more sense and we completely remove "numbers" from
drivers, they have to obtain their struct interrupt via some interrupt
mapping code....

Ben.

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