Subject: [PATCH RFC 2/7] platform-msi: Factor out allocation/free of private data

From: [email-masked] (Marc Zyngier)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:50:51 +0100

On 16/10/15 06:46, Jiang Liu wrote:
> On 2015/10/15 23:39, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> As we're going to have multiple paths to allocate/free the
>> platform-msi private data, factor this out into separate
>> utility functions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  drivers/base/platform-msi.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>>  1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/platform-msi.c b/drivers/base/platform-msi.c
>> index 6148c78..92666cd 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/platform-msi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/platform-msi.c
>> @@ -189,21 +189,11 @@ struct irq_domain *platform_msi_create_irq_domain(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
>>  	return domain;
>>  }
>>  
>> -/**
>> - * platform_msi_domain_alloc_irqs - Allocate MSI interrupts for @dev
>> - * @dev:		The device for which to allocate interrupts
>> - * @nvec:		The number of interrupts to allocate
>> - * @write_msi_msg:	Callback to write an interrupt message for @dev
>> - *
>> - * Returns:
>> - * Zero for success, or an error code in case of failure
>> - */
>> -int platform_msi_domain_alloc_irqs(struct device *dev, unsigned int nvec,
>> -				   irq_write_msi_msg_t write_msi_msg)
>> +static int platform_msi_alloc_priv_data(struct device *dev, unsigned int nvec,
>> +					irq_write_msi_msg_t write_msi_msg,
>> +					struct platform_msi_priv_data **data)
> How about making platform_msi_alloc_priv_data() return a pointer
> instead of an int, that may simplify the code a bit.
> 

That's a good point. I could encode the error code in the return pointer
(PTR_ERR).

Thanks,

	M.
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