Re: [PATCH 02/43] drivers/net/e2100.c: fix sparse warning: symbolshadows an earlier one

From: walter harms
Date: Sun Feb 15 2009 - 09:22:37 EST


Hi Hannes,
it is ok to replace a fixed boarder with ARRAY_SIZE()
in this special case i would success the following additional cleanup
(untestet !!)


static int set_free_irq(struct net_device *dev)
{
int irqlist[] = {15,11,10,12,5,9,3,4}, i;

for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(irqlist); i++)
if (request_irq (irqlist[i], NULL, 0, "bogus", NULL) != -EBUSY) {
dev->irq = irqlist[i];
return 0;
}
return -1;
}

....

if (dev->irq < 2) {
if ( set_free_irq(dev) < 0) {
printk(" unable to get IRQ %d.\n", dev->irq);
retval = -EAGAIN;
goto out;
}

for me this looks more readable.

getting a free interrupt from a list mus be a common problem ? I am not in driver programming
perhaps such a code is already in place somewhere ?

comments ?

re,
wh


Hannes Eder schrieb:
> Impact: Remove redundant inner scope variable and while being at it
> make use of ARRAY_SIZE instead of a hardcoded number.
>
> Fix this sparse warning:
> drivers/net/e2100.c:219:56: warning: symbol 'i' shadows an earlier one
> drivers/net/e2100.c:181:13: originally declared here
>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/e2100.c | 6 +++---
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/e2100.c b/drivers/net/e2100.c
> index b07ba19..d2f6ee1 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/e2100.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/e2100.c
> @@ -216,13 +216,13 @@ static int __init e21_probe1(struct net_device *dev, int ioaddr)
> printk(" %02X", station_addr[i]);
>
> if (dev->irq < 2) {
> - int irqlist[] = {15,11,10,12,5,9,3,4}, i;
> - for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)
> + int irqlist[] = {15, 11, 10, 12, 5, 9, 3, 4};
> + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(irqlist); i++)
> if (request_irq (irqlist[i], NULL, 0, "bogus", NULL) != -EBUSY) {
> dev->irq = irqlist[i];
> break;
> }
> - if (i >= 8) {
> + if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(irqlist)) {
> printk(" unable to get IRQ %d.\n", dev->irq);
> retval = -EAGAIN;
> goto out;
>
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