Re: [PATCH 2/2] genirq: Generic chip: factorise code using irq_get_domain_generic_chip()

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, Sebastian Frias wrote:
> @@ -350,10 +350,10 @@ irq_get_domain_generic_chip(struct irq_domain *d, unsigned int hw_irq)
>  	int idx;
>  
>  	if (!dgc)
> -		return NULL;
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>  	idx = hw_irq / dgc->irqs_per_chip;
>  	if (idx >= dgc->num_chips)
> -		return NULL;
> +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

This is completely pointless churn. None of the existing callsites cares
about the error value. We can simply split out the guts into a static
function and keep the semantics for irq_get_domain_generic_chip.

I'll fix that up while applying it.

Thanks,

	tglx