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SubjectRe: [PATCH] platform: finally disallow IRQ0 in platform_get_irq() and its ilk
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On 12/10/21 2:17 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

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>>>> The commit a85a6c86c25b ("driver core: platform: Clarify that IRQ 0 is
>>>> invalid") only calls WARN() when IRQ0 is about to be returned, however
>>>> using IRQ0 is considered invalid (according to Linus) outside the arch/
>>>> code where it's used by the i8253 drivers. Many driver subsystems treat
>>>> 0 specially (e.g. as an indication of the polling mode by libata), so
>>>> the users of platform_get_irq[_byname]() in them would have to filter
>>>> out IRQ0 explicitly and this (quite obviously) doesn't scale...
>>>> Let's finally get this straight and return -EINVAL instead of IRQ0!
>>>
>>> You are changing the return value of platform_get_irq_optional().
>>> The problem here is the proposed change doesn't bring any value in such
>>> case. platform_get_irq_optional() should be able (at the end of the day)
>>> to return 3 types of values (as other APIs do):
>>> > 0: success
>>> == 0: IRQ not found
>>> < 0: an error that must be consumed by the caller
>>
>> I remember that was in your patch that got reverted right after being merged. ;-)
>> IMHO returning both error code and 0 on failure is a sign of a misdesigned API, it
>> makes the failure check unnecessarily complex and error prone.
>
> I dunno what you are talking about when you mentioned "0 on failure" because 0
> is not the failure, that's what I'm trying to tell.

OK.

>>> 0 is unexpected result for non-optional APIs and there you may try to play
>>> tricks (like replacing it by error code).
>>>
>>> There was a discussion around the topic:
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210331144526.19439-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com/T/#u
>>
>> I don't see much of the discussion there...
>
> Indeed, it was split between two threads. Another one is this:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/20210407101713.8694-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com/T/#u

OK.

>>> Wanna help?
>>
>> No, I'm afraid you're on your own here...

Tell me please, how far you've got with this by now?
(I've already started to add the fixups to your patch -- unfortunately, this change has to be
done atomically, not piecemeal.)

>>>> Fixes: a85a6c86c25b ("driver core: platform: Clarify that IRQ 0 is invalid")
>>>
>>> Not sure.
>>
>> Why? It fixes gthe IRQ0 problem, so that you don't have to check for IRQ0 in many callers
>> (for the subsytems that treat 0 as s/th special, like polling mode)... If you have something
>> to improve, you can do that atop of this patch...
>
> Because first we need to fix all users of platform_get_irq_optional().

I still don't understand why your issue should be fixed 1st -- but I don't really care about
the order...

MBR, Sergey

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