linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: Rename platform_get_irq_optional() to platform_get_irq

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Date:   Sat, 15 Jan 2022 16:45:39 +0100
From:   Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: Rename
 platform_get_irq_optional() to platform_get_irq_silent()

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 03:04:38PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 08:43:58PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > It'd certainly be good to name anything that doesn't correspond to one
> > > of the existing semantics for the API (!) something different rather
> > > than adding yet another potentially overloaded meaning.
> > 
> > It seems we're (at least) three who agree about this. Here is a patch
> > fixing the name.
> 
> And similar number of people are on the other side.

If someone already opposed to the renaming (and not only the name) I
must have missed that.

So you think it's a good idea to keep the name
platform_get_irq_optional() despite the "not found" value returned by it
isn't usable as if it were a normal irq number?

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |

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