Re: [tip:irq/urgent] genirq: Make legacy autoprobing work again

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Feb 01 2018 - 04:56:38 EST


On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:54 AM, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
> > -void irq_activate_and_startup(struct irq_desc *desc, bool resend)
> > +int irq_activate_and_startup(struct irq_desc *desc, bool resend)
> > {
> > if (WARN_ON(irq_activate(desc)))
> > return;
>
> As reported by 0day, this should return something.
>
> if CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN=n or CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY=n,
> irq_activate() will never return 1, and the code path can be eliminated.
>
> BTW, is gcc becoming too smart, and already eliminating code before it
> generates warnings for it? Recently I've seen some other cases where buggy
> code was not warned about, as it was considered not having any impact.

Looks like. Fixed it up.

Thanks,

tglx