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

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Date:   Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:47:06 +0300
From:   Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
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 1/19/22 9:51 PM, Andy Shevchenko 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?
> 
> I meant that on the other side people who are in favour of Sergey's patch.
> Since that I commented already that I opposed the renaming being a standalone
> change.
> 
> Do you agree that we have several issues with platform_get_irq*() APIs?
> 
> 1. The unfortunate naming

   Mmm, "what's in a name?"... is this the topmost prio issue?

> 2. The vIRQ0 handling: a) WARN() followed by b) returned value 0

   This is the most severe issue, I think...

> 3. The specific cookie for "IRQ not found, while no error happened" case

MBR, Sergey