IRQs in i2c-mpc.c

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Nov 11 10:18:56 EST 2007


On Nov 10, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Jon Smirl wrote:

> On 11/10/07, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> Looking at the current driver it looks like we could get ride of if
>> check since the previous code checked the return of  
>> platform_get_irq().
>
> The code was a snippet from the larger patch that is converting i2c
> from being a platform driver to a of_platform driver.
>
> The question is, what to do about a missing IRQ tag in the device tree
> or a IRQ of zero. What is an error and what should be ignored, etc.

I think the lack of an IRQ in the device tree should be an error.  If  
the IRQ value is zero, than its zero.

- k




More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list