[PATCH 1/4] drivers: create a pinmux subsystem

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Tue May 10 18:37:00 EDT 2011


On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 00:18 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2011/5/2 Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>:
> > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 21:16 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/pinmux/core.c b/drivers/pinmux/core.c
> > Trivial comments follow
> >> +static inline int pin_is_valid(int pin)
> >> +{
> >> +     return ((unsigned)pin) < MACH_NR_PINS;
> >> +}
> > Couldn't pin just be declared unsigned or maybe u32?
> No, because like in the GPIO subsystem you *may* want to send in invalid
> pins, and those are identified by negative numbers.

Then I think this is clearer and the compiler
should produce the same code.

static inline bool pin_is_valid(int pin)
{ 
	return pin >= 0 && pin < MACH_NR_PINS;
}

cheers, Joe




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