netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: ravb: Get rid of the temporary variable irq

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Message-ID: <38ed2c42-4077-7ee2-5cd0-9d38e217c944@omp.ru>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 22:43:15 +0300
From: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
To: claudiu beznea <claudiu.beznea@...on.dev>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<edumazet@...gle.com>, <kuba@...nel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>
CC: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Claudiu Beznea
	<claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: ravb: Get rid of the temporary variable
 irq

On 2/9/24 8:48 AM, claudiu beznea wrote:

[...]

>>> From: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>
>>>
>>> The 4th argument of ravb_setup_irq() is used to save the IRQ number that
>>> will be further used by the driver code. Not all ravb_setup_irqs() calls
>>> need to save the IRQ number. The previous code used to pass a dummy
>>> variable as the 4th argument in case the IRQ is not needed for further
>>> usage. That is not necessary as the code from ravb_setup_irq() can detect
>>> by itself if the IRQ needs to be saved. Thus, get rid of the code that is
>>> not needed.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
>>> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>
>> [...]
>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>>> index 9521cd054274..e235342e0827 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>>> @@ -2611,17 +2611,20 @@ static int ravb_setup_irq(struct ravb_private *priv, const char *irq_name,
>>>  		if (!dev_name)
>>>  			return -ENOMEM;
>>>  
>>> -		*irq = platform_get_irq_byname(pdev, irq_name);
>>> +		error = platform_get_irq_byname(pdev, irq_name);
>>>  		flags = 0;
>>>  	} else {
>>>  		dev_name = ndev->name;
>>> -		*irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
>>> +		error = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
>>>  		flags = IRQF_SHARED;
>>>  	}
>>> -	if (*irq < 0)
>>> -		return *irq;
>>> +	if (error < 0)
>>> +		return error;
>>>  
>>> -	error = devm_request_irq(dev, *irq, handler, flags, dev_name, ndev);
>>> +	if (irq)
>>> +		*irq = error;
>>> +
>>> +	error = devm_request_irq(dev, error, handler, flags, dev_name, ndev);
>>>  	if (error)
>>>  		netdev_err(ndev, "cannot request IRQ %s\n", dev_name);
>>>  
>>
>>    Thanks for addressing my IRC comment! Tho the naming seems awful. :-)

	if (error < 0)
		return error;
 
	if (irq)
		*irq = error;

	error = devm_request_irq(dev, error, handler, flags, dev_name, ndev);

   These just don't look right...

>>    I'd suggest to add a local variable (named e.g, irq_num) and use it to
> 
> I tried to avoid that...

   Why? :-)

>> store the result of platform_get_irq[_byname]().
>>
>> [...]

MBR, Sergey