Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: propagate error if IRQ request fails in mwifiex_sdio_of()

Hello Arend,

On 08/18/2016 03:49 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:

On 18-08-16 21:29, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

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Hello Arend,

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

On 08/18/2016 03:14 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:

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On 18-08-16 16:17, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

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If request_irq() fails in mwifiex_sdio_probe_of(), only an error message
is printed but the actual error is not propagated to the caller function.

Hmm. The caller function, ie. mwifiex_sdio_probe(), does not seem to care.

Hmm, I'm not so sure about that. It's checking the wifiex_sdio_probe_of()
return value.

Ok. I looked at 4.7 sources on lxr [1].

Oh, right. That was fixed quite recently indeed.
 

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If the IRQ request failing is not an error, then at the very least the call
to disable_irq() should be avoided if request_irq() fails, and the message
should be changed from dev_err() to dev_dgb() or dev_info().

agree.

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The device may still function without this wake interrupt.

That's correct, the binding says that the "interrupts" property in the child
node is optional since is just a wakeup IRQ. Now the question is if should
be an error if the IRQ is defined but fails to be requested.

Clearly it indicates an error in the DT specification so behavior is not
as expected. Personally I would indeed consider it an error, but I was
just indicating that it might have done like this intentionally.

Yes, might had been done intentionally indeed but I don't think that is
the case since the driver lacked error checking and propagation in many
places. But if someone thinks that's better to not honor the DT and at
least have the driver working without the wake up capability, then I'm
happy to respin the patch and change the print log level to info/debug.
 

Regards,
Arend

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America