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

From: Mugunthan V N <hidden>
Date: 2013-11-08 09:18:58
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On Friday 08 November 2013 02:11 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 10:03:19PM +0530, Mugunthan V N wrote:
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On Thursday 07 November 2013 05:52 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 05:44:38PM +0530, Mugunthan V N wrote:
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On Thursday 07 November 2013 01:18 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
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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 <redacted>
ndev->irq is never used any where in the driver, I think its better to
remove this part of code from probe. If every one is ok, I can send a
patch to remove the code.
It seems like cpsw_ndo_poll_controller() uses it.
That can be changed to pass one of the interrupt numbers from priv as
the irq number is not used in interrupt service routine.
I don't know anything about this driver, so I'm fine with your idea.
Anyhow David has applied your patch, I will send a driver cleanup patch
seperately.

Regards
Mugunthan V N
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