netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/7] can/at91: don't check platform_get

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Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:08:03 +0100
From:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Vrabel <dvrabel@...om.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Urs Thuermann <urs.thuermann@...kswagen.de>,
	Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@...kswagen.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@....be>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] can/at91: don't check platform_get_irq's return
	value against zero

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:27:03PM +0100, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > platform_get_irq returns -ENXIO on failure, so !irq was probably
> > always true.  Better use (int)irq <= 0.  Note that a return value of
> > zero is still handled as error even though this could mean irq0.
> 
> But only on ARM, which is the only platform still using the infamous
> NO_IRQ (=-1). As this is a driver for ARM hardware, using irq == NO_IRQ
> would make sense, though.

This has nothing to do with NO_IRQ.  You could do:

-       if (!res || !irq) {
+       if (!res || irq <= (int)NO_IRQ) {

but this looks too ugly.  (IMHO using NO_IRQ is already ugly.)

Still, before my patch platform_get_irq return 0 was an error and if
this should be handled as irq0 this is a separate issue that should be
fixed in a separate patch.

Best regards
Uwe

PS:

linux-2.6$ git grep -E 'define *NO_IRQ\>' arch/*/include
arch/arm/include/asm/irq.h:#define NO_IRQ       ((unsigned int)(-1))
arch/microblaze/include/asm/irq.h:#define NO_IRQ (-1)
arch/mn10300/include/asm/irq.h:#define NO_IRQ           INT_MAX
arch/parisc/include/asm/irq.h:#define NO_IRQ            (-1)
arch/powerpc/include/asm/irq.h:#define NO_IRQ                   (0)


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