Re: [PATCH v8 4/5] usb: ehci: Add new EHCI driver for Broadcom STB SoC's

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Sat May 09 2020 - 08:04:48 EST


On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 3:47 AM Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 2020, Al Cooper wrote:

...

> > + irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> > + if (irq <= 0)
> > + return irq;
>
> I don't want to get involved in the question of whether or not 0 is a
> valid IRQ number. The consensus has gone back and forth over the
> years, and it just doesn't seem important.
>
> However, as Sergei points out, if 0 is going to be regarded as an
> invalid value then we shouldn't return 0 from the probe function here.

The most of the drivers rely on the fact that on platforms where it's
the case (yes, we have you-know-which architecture has some legacy
stuff there) request_irq() will fail anyway.

> I'll leave the decision on how to handle this matter up to Greg. :-)

Me too.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko