Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2022 23:43:19 +0100 | From | Uwe Kleine-König <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: Rename platform_get_irq_optional() to platform_get_irq_silent() |
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 11:57:43PM +0300, Sergey Shtylyov wrote: > On 1/13/22 11:17 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > > >> The subsystems regulator, clk and gpio have the concept of a dummy > >> resource. For regulator, clk and gpio there is a semantic difference > >> between the regular _get() function and the _get_optional() variant. > >> (One might return the dummy resource, the other won't. Unfortunately > >> which one implements which isn't the same for these three.) The > >> difference between platform_get_irq() and platform_get_irq_optional() is > >> only that the former might emit an error message and the later won't. > > This is only a current difference but I'm still going to return 0 ISO > -ENXIO from latform_get_irq_optional(), no way I'd leave that -ENXIO there > alone... :-)
This would address a bit of the critic in my commit log. But as 0 isn't a dummy value like the dummy values that exist for clk, gpiod and regulator I still think that the naming is a bad idea because it's not in the spirit of the other *_get_optional functions.
Seeing you say that -ENXIO is a bad return value for platform_get_irq_optional() and 0 should be used instead, I wonder why not changing platform_get_irq() to return 0 instead of -ENXIO, too. This question is for now only about a sensible semantic. That actually changing platform_get_irq() is probably harder than changing platform_get_irq_optional() is a different story.
If only platform_get_irq_optional() is changed and given that the callers have to do something like:
if (this_irq_exists()): ... (e.g. request_irq) else: ... (e.g. setup polling)
I really think it's a bad idea that this_irq_exists() has to be different for platform_get_irq() vs. platform_get_irq_optional().
> > Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> > > Hm... I'm seeing a tag bit not seeing the patch itself...
See https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220113194358.xnnbhsoyetihterb@pengutronix.de/
This is just a tree-wide s/platform_get_irq_optional/platform_get_irq_silent/ + a macro to not break callers of platform_get_irq_optional().
Best regards Uwe
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