Re: [PATCH 1/1] UIO: Add a write() function to enable/disable interrupts

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello Hans,

Hans J. Koch wrote:
> Am Fri, 23 May 2008 11:10:09 +0200
> schrieb Uwe Kleine-KÃnig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@xxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Hans J. Koch wrote:
> > > Am Fri, 23 May 2008 07:55:27 +0200
> > > schrieb Uwe Kleine-KÃnig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@xxxxxxxx>:
> > > 
> > > > Hello Hans,
> > > > 
> > > > > -      Copyright (c) 2006 by Hans-JÃÅrgen Koch.</para>
> > > > > +      Copyright (c) 2006-2008 by Hans-JÃÅrgen Koch.</para>
> > > > This looks wrong.
> > > 
> > > DocBook XML is supposed to be UTF-8.
> > Correct.  But still the problem is real.  The headers of your mail
> > claim the content to be encoded in UTF-8, but actually it's latin1.
> > So I cannot apply the patch you sent with git am without hand editing.
> 
> Try the version below.
This one is better---I can apply it.

> +	if (copy_from_user(&irq_on, buf, count))
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +
> +	if (!idev->info->irqcontrol)
> +		return -ENOSYS;
I would swap these two.  copy_from_user is more expensive than testing
idev->info->irqcontrol.  (Is it really?)  Anyhow only fetching a value
from userspace if you really need it looks more clean to me.

Otherwise the patch looks fine.

Uwe


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