Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: Rename platform_get_irq_optional() to platform_get_irq_silent()

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Uwe" == Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

 > The subsystems regulator, clk and gpio have the concept of a dummy
 > resource. For regulator, clk and gpio there is a semantic difference
 > between the regular _get() function and the _get_optional() variant.
 > (One might return the dummy resource, the other won't. Unfortunately
 > which one implements which isn't the same for these three.) The
 > difference between platform_get_irq() and platform_get_irq_optional() is
 > only that the former might emit an error message and the later won't.

 > To prevent people's expectations that there is a semantic difference
 > between these too, rename platform_get_irq_optional() to
 > platform_get_irq_silent() to make the actual difference more obvious.

 > The #define for the old name can and should be removed once all patches
 > currently in flux still relying on platform_get_irq_optional() are
 > fixed.

 > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

For i2c-ocores.c:

Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard