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DateSat, 2 Feb 2008 22:15:02 -0800
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] request_irq() always returns -EINVAL with a NULL handler.
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:57:58 +1100 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:

> I assume that these ancient network drivers were trying to find out if
> an irq is available.  eepro.c expecting +EBUSY was doubly wrong.
> > I'm not sure that can_request_irq() is the right thing, but these drivers
> are definitely wrong.> > request_irq should BUG() on bad input, and these would have been found
> earlier.

This breaks non-CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS architectures.

alpha:

drivers/net/3c503.c: In function 'el2_open':
drivers/net/3c503.c:382: error: implicit declaration of function 'can_request_irq'



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