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