linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESENT#2] [AVR32] don't check platform_get

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Date:	Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:44:46 +0100
From:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@...el.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Vrabel <dvrabel@...om.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESENT#2] [AVR32] don't check platform_get_irq's return
 value against zero

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:28:52PM +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 11:28 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: 
> > platform_get_irq returns -ENXIO on failure, so !int_irq was probably
> > always true.  Better use (int)int_irq <= 0.  Note that a return value of
> > zero is still handled as error even though this could mean irq0.
> > 
> > This is a followup to 305b3228f9ff4d59f49e6d34a7034d44ee8ce2f0 that
> > changed the return value of platform_get_irq from 0 to -ENXIO on error.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> > ---
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Hans-Christian Egtvedt asked to push this patch via Linus as there is no avr32
> > tree.
> > 
> > @Andrew: do you take it?
> 
> Actually, now I have a tree for AVR32 on git.kernel.org, but I have no
> other updates lined up for 2.6.38. Will you Andrew add it to your
> series, or should I push this one through my git tree?
I don't consider it that critical.  So for me getting it in the avr32
tree now and then getting it merged for .39 would be OK for me.

Best regards
Uwe

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