Re: [PATCH 1/2] driver core: platform: Introduce platform_get_irq_optional()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:34:10AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In some cases the interrupt line of a device is optional. Introduce a
> new platform_get_irq_optional() that works much like platform_get_irq()
> but does not output an error on failure to find the interrupt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/base/platform.c         | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/platform_device.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
> index 8ad701068c11..0dda6ade50fd 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
> @@ -192,6 +192,28 @@ int platform_get_irq(struct platform_device *dev, unsigned int num)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_get_irq);
>  
> +/**
> + * platform_get_irq_optional - get an optional IRQ for a device
> + * @dev: platform device
> + * @num: IRQ number index
> + *
> + * Gets an IRQ for a platform device. Device drivers should check the return
> + * value for errors so as to not pass a negative integer value to the
> + * request_irq() APIs. This is the same as platform_get_irq(), except that it
> + * does not print an error message if an IRQ can not be obtained.

Kind of funny that the work people did to put error messages in a
central place needs to be worked around at times :)

Anyway, I have no objection to this, but it looks like it has to go in
through my tree.  I can take the hwmon patch as well through my tree if
the hwmon maintainer(s) say it is ok to do so.

thanks,

greg k-h