Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] counter: microchip-tcb-capture: Add IRQ handling

[William Breathitt Gray]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 10:57:05AM +0100, Csókás Bence wrote:
> On 2025. 03. 04. 8:02, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> > In theory, the error code could be something else if of_irq_get() failed
> > for any other reason. Handle all those error cases at once by checking
> > IS_ERR(priv->irq) rather than just -EPROBE_DEFER. Then you can just
> > return dev_err_probe() with priv->irq for the error code.
> 
> Yes, `of_irq_get()` can return an error, for example if the IRQ is not
> defined in the DT. In these cases, we just don't do IRQ, but still allow the
> device to probe. -EPROBE_DEFER is special in this case, because it signifies
> that there *is* an IRQ to set up, just not now.

You're right, that makes sense. Thank you for explaining.

William Breathitt Gray

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