Re: [PATCH 1/4] drivers: create a pinmux subsystem

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue May 10 2011 - 18:37:33 EST


On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 00:18 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2011/5/2 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 21:16 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/pinmux/core.c b/drivers/pinmux/core.c
> > Trivial comments follow
> >> +static inline int pin_is_valid(int pin)
> >> +{
> >> + return ((unsigned)pin) < MACH_NR_PINS;
> >> +}
> > Couldn't pin just be declared unsigned or maybe u32?
> No, because like in the GPIO subsystem you *may* want to send in invalid
> pins, and those are identified by negative numbers.

Then I think this is clearer and the compiler
should produce the same code.

static inline bool pin_is_valid(int pin)
{
return pin >= 0 && pin < MACH_NR_PINS;
}

cheers, Joe

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