From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756120Ab3KHAOA (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 19:14:00 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:56616 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753904Ab3KHAN7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 19:13:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:13:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20131107.191357.715504104393441553.davem@davemloft.net> To: dan.carpenter@oracle.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] net: make ndev->irq signed for error handling From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20131107074849.GF21844@elgon.mountain> References: <20131107074849.GF21844@elgon.mountain> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.1 (shards.monkeyblade.net [0.0.0.0]); Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:13:58 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Dan Carpenter 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 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.