timer-of: don't use conditional expression with mixed 'void' types
Randy Dunlap reports on the sparse list that sparse warns about this
expression:
of_irq->percpu ? free_percpu_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt) :
free_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt);
and honestly, sparse is correct to warn. The return type of
free_percpu_irq() is 'void', while free_irq() returns a 'const void *'
that is the devname argument passed in to the request_irq().
You can't mix a void type with a non-void types in a conditional
expression according to the C standard. It so happens that gcc seems to
accept it - and the resulting type of the expression is void - but
there's really no reason for the kernel to have this kind of
non-standard expression with no real upside.
The natural way to write that expression is with an if-statement:
if (of_irq->percpu)
free_percpu_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt);
else
free_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt);
which is more legible anyway.
I'm not sure...
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