Hello! On 1/14/22 11:22 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: >>>>>>> To me it sounds much more logical for the driver to check if an >>>>>>> optional irq is non-zero (available) or zero (not available), than to >>>>>>> sprinkle around checks for -ENXIO. In addition, you have to remember >>>>>>> that this one returns -ENXIO, while other APIs use -ENOENT or -ENOSYS >>>>>>> (or some other error code) to indicate absence. I thought not having >>>>>>> to care about the actual error code was the main reason behind the >>>>>>> introduction of the *_optional() APIs. >>>>> >>>>>> No, the main benefit of gpiod_get_optional() (and clk_get_optional()) is >>>>>> that you can handle an absent GPIO (or clk) as if it were available. >>>> >>>> Hm, I've just looked at these and must note that they match 1:1 with >>>> platform_get_irq_optional(). Unfortunately, we can't however behave the >>>> same way in request_irq() -- because it has to support IRQ0 for the sake >>>> of i8253 drivers in arch/... >>> >>> Let me reformulate your statement to the IMHO equivalent: >>> >>> If you set aside the differences between >>> platform_get_irq_optional() and gpiod_get_optional(), >> >> Sorry, I should make it clear this is actually the diff between a would-be >> platform_get_irq_optional() after my patch, not the current code... > > The similarity is that with your patch both gpiod_get_optional() and > platform_get_irq_optional() return NULL and 0 on not-found. The relevant > difference however is that for a gpiod NULL is a dummy value, while for > irqs it's not. So the similarity is only syntactically, but not > semantically. I have noting to say here, rather than optional IRQ could well have a different meaning than for clk/gpio/etc. [...] >>> However for an interupt this cannot work. You will always have to check >>> if the irq is actually there or not because if it's not you cannot just >>> ignore that. So there is no benefit of an optional irq. >>> >>> Leaving error message reporting aside, the introduction of >>> platform_get_irq_optional() allows to change >>> >>> irq = platform_get_irq(...); >>> if (irq < 0 && irq != -ENXIO) { >>> return irq; >>> } else if (irq >= 0) { >> >> Rather (irq > 0) actually, IRQ0 is considered invalid (but still returned). > > This is a topic I don't feel strong for, so I'm sloppy here. If changing > this is all that is needed to convince you of my point ... Note that we should absolutely (and first of all) stop returning 0 from platform_get_irq() on a "real" IRQ0. Handling that "still good" zero absolutely doesn't scale e.g. for the subsystems (like libata) which take 0 as an indication that the polling mode should be used... We can't afford to be sloppy here. ;-) [...] > Best regards > Uwe MBR, Sergey