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

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 04:45:39PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 03:04:38PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 08:43:58PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > It'd certainly be good to name anything that doesn't correspond to one
> > > > of the existing semantics for the API (!) something different rather
> > > > than adding yet another potentially overloaded meaning.
> > > 
> > > It seems we're (at least) three who agree about this. Here is a patch
> > > fixing the name.
> > 
> > And similar number of people are on the other side.
> 
> If someone already opposed to the renaming (and not only the name) I
> must have missed that.
> 
> So you think it's a good idea to keep the name
> platform_get_irq_optional() despite the "not found" value returned by it
> isn't usable as if it were a normal irq number?

I meant that on the other side people who are in favour of Sergey's patch.
Since that I commented already that I opposed the renaming being a standalone
change.

Do you agree that we have several issues with platform_get_irq*() APIs?

1. The unfortunate naming
2. The vIRQ0 handling: a) WARN() followed by b) returned value 0
3. The specific cookie for "IRQ not found, while no error happened" case


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko