Re: [PATCH 1/2] of/irq: Get rid of NO_IRQ usage

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Dec 06 2011 - 16:25:32 EST


On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This warning code is really ugly. Can we just drop it? In my searching
> of in kernel dts files, there's only 1 instance I have found (Versatile
> AB watchdog) that would hit this.

I do agree. Especially since we never got any input on whether it works or not.

> If not, you don't need to handle irq_create_of_mapping return as that is
> already always 0 for no irq or error.

Yeah, I'd like to just remove NO_IRQ from the OF paths. Afaik, it
hasn't worked as NO_IRQ before anyway, so even if the rest of the
drivers end up continuing using NO_IRQ, the OF-enabled ones on ARM
should just stop. There can't be many of those yet.

Linus
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