[PATCH] ata: Don't use NO_IRQ in pata_of_platform driver
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Tue Dec 6 17:13:21 EST 2011
On 18:45 Mon 05 Dec , Alan Cox wrote:
> > But as you illustrated, there is a large number of drivers that already
> > assume no IRQ is < 0, even if they don't use any IRQ #0 themselves.
> > That is a much bigger problem to fix.
>
> And a much larger number assuming the reverse is true which are hiding
> potential bugs on ARM.
>
> Looking at the serial stuff the best checks appear to be looking at
> "irq", "-1" and NO_IRQ.
>
> For migration stuff that's doing broken things like
>
> if (irq < 0)
>
> can be changed to
>
> if (irq <= 0)
>
> and that can be done before NO_IRQ itself is nailed on ARM and PA-RISC.
can we sinply introduce a macro irq_is_valid
and make it chip dependant as gpio_is_valid
and then move away from irq 0 valid
so we do not need to brake anthing first and then easly convert them
Best Regards,
J.
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