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Message-ID: <51A35C2F.4000201@linaro.org>
Date:	Mon, 27 May 2013 15:14:23 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:	Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
CC:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: dw_apb: fix error check

On 05/27/2013 01:51 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> irq_of_parse_and_map() returns 0 on error, while the code checks for NO_IRQ.
> This breaks on platforms that have NO_IRQ != 0.
> 
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
> ---

Shouldn't the 'irq_of_parse_and_map' function to be fixed and return
NO_IRQ in case of error ? (even if some code checks the return value is
'zero' in case of error [1], while some other code checks NO_IRQ [2]).

[1]
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/x86/kernel/devicetree.c#n124

[2]
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_msi.c#n344


>  drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c b/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c
> index 9fdb4d3..843d43b 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static void add_clockevent(struct device_node *event_timer)
>  	u32 irq, rate;
>  
>  	irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(event_timer, 0);
> -	if (irq == NO_IRQ)
> +	if (irq == 0)
>  		panic("No IRQ for clock event timer");
>  
>  	timer_get_base_and_rate(event_timer, &iobase, &rate);
> 


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