Re: [patch] net: make ndev->irq signed for error handling

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Nov 07 2013 - 19:14:09 EST


From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:48:49 +0300

> There is a bug in cpsw_probe() where we do:
>
> ndev->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> if (ndev->irq < 0) {
>
> The problem is that "ndev->irq" is unsigned so the error handling
> doesn't work. I have changed it to a regular int.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Even though some simplifications have been suggested wrt. how
this irq value is obtained in the one place where it is used,
I am applying Dan's patch for now.
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