linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7 v2] net: ethernet: i825xx: Fix platform_get

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Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:58:01 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        michal.simek@...inx.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        opendmb@...il.com, mkl@...gutronix.de,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, wg@...ndegger.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7 v2] net: ethernet: i825xx: Fix platform_get_irq's
 error checking

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 01:12:23PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>    Well, we can have:
> 
> 	return r && r->start ? r->start : -ENXIO;
> 
> instead of:
> 
> 	return r ? r->start : -ENXIO;
> 
> at the end of platform_get_irq(). But I don't really think it's worth doing
> -- request_irq() doesn't filter out IRQ0 anyway, IIRC...

There's a bunch of platforms in the kernel that still use IRQ0, and
have done prior to Linus' comments on the subject.  Such a change
would regress them.

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