On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 03:19:06PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 07:36:43PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > A possible compromise: We can have both. We rename
> > platform_get_irq_optional() to platform_get_irq_silent() (or
> > platform_get_irq_silently() if this is preferred) and once all users are
> > are changed (which can be done mechanically), we reintroduce a
> > platform_get_irq_optional() with Sergey's suggested semantic (i.e.
> > return 0 on not-found, no error message printking).
> 
> Please do not do that as anyone trying to forward-port an old driver
> will miss the abi change of functionality and get confused.  Make
> build-breaking changes, if the way a function currently works is
> changed in order to give people a chance.

Fine for me. I assume this is a Nack for Sergey's patch?

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
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