From 1f3a6a15771ed70d3b2581663dcc6b9bc134baa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenji Kaneshige Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:42:00 -0400 Subject: [ACPI] acpi_register_gsi() can return error Current acpi_register_gsi() function has no way to indicate errors to its callers even though acpi_register_gsi() can fail to register gsi because of some reasons (out of memory, lack of interrupt vectors, incorrect BIOS, and so on). As a result, caller of acpi_register_gsi() cannot handle the case that acpi_register_gsi() fails. I think failure of acpi_register_gsi() should be handled properly. This series of patches changes acpi_register_gsi() to return negative value on error, and also changes callers of acpi_register_gsi() to handle failure of acpi_register_gsi(). This patch changes the type of return value of acpi_register_gsi() from "unsigned int" to "int" to indicate an error. If acpi_register_gsi() fails to register gsi, it returns negative value. Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c') diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c index 848bb97af7ca..364f4b7c4e3e 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c @@ -457,7 +457,11 @@ int acpi_gsi_to_irq(u32 gsi, unsigned int *irq) return 0; } -unsigned int acpi_register_gsi(u32 gsi, int edge_level, int active_high_low) +/* + * success: return IRQ number (>=0) + * failure: return < 0 + */ +int acpi_register_gsi(u32 gsi, int edge_level, int active_high_low) { unsigned int irq; unsigned int plat_gsi = gsi; -- cgit v1.2.3