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

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On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 10:45:38PM +0300, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:
> On 1/13/22 10:43 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
>    Hm... I'm afraid that with this #define they would never get fixed... :-)

Agree. The problems I have listed in another reply should be fixed at once by
the same series.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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