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Message-ID: <20091216174904.GB26325@pengutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:49:04 +0100
From: Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@....com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
spi-devel-general@...ts.sourceforge.net,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] spi/mpc8xxx: don't check platform_get_irq's return
value against zero
Hello,
[Note the email address used for David Vrabel isn't valid any more,
this mail uses his last used address.]
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 07:32:29PM +0300, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:10:08PM +0100, 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.
> >
> > This is a followup to 305b3228f9ff4d59f49e6d34a7034d44ee8ce2f0 that
> > changed the return value of platform_get_irq from 0 to -ENXIO on error.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> > ---
>
> Noooooo... :-(
>
> Please revert 305b3228f9ff4d59f49e6d34a7034d44ee8ce2f0 instead,
> and fix platforms to remap HWIRQ0 to something that is not VIRQ0.
>
> IRQ0 is invalid for everything that is outside of arch/*.
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/11/22/159
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/11/22/213
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/11/22/227
First note that my check is safe with both variants (e.g. it does the
right thing independent of the error being signaled by 0 or
-ESOMETHING.)
Then arch/arm/mach-pxa/devices.c has:
static struct resource pxa27x_resource_ssp3[] = {
...
[1] = {
.start = IRQ_SSP3,
.end = IRQ_SSP3,
.flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ,
},
...
}
with IRQ_SSP3 being zero (sometimes). The driver is implemented in
arch/arm/mach-pxa/ssp.c and uses platform_get_irq. So according to your
definition it's allowed (arch/* only). Still this would break if you
revert 305b3228f9.
Actually I don't care much, but as platform_get_irq returns an int I
think it's fine for it to signal an error using a value < 0 as irqs are
not negative.
My position regarding irq0 is: If a variable holds either a valid irq
or a value indicating "no irq", then feel free to use 0 as "no irq" and
a value > 0 for a valid irq (without offset). If you want irq0 here,
you're out of luck. But if you have a variable holding a valid irq only
(that is, there is no doubt if the value is valid or not) I see no
reason to dogmatically prohibit irq0.
I'm a bit annoyed as this is the third time[1] this month this irq0
discussion pops up for me. I think people see that irq0 is involved
somehow, start wailing and stop seeing the issues being fixed.
Best regards
Uwe
[1] one is:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/924739
the other wasn't on lkml, only mm-commits. Cannot find it on the
net now.
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