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Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: ad7768-1: Fix the right interrupt
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From:   Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
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Date:   Wed, 12 May 2021 11:21:52 +0200
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On 5/12/21 10:39 AM, tangbin wrote:
> Hi Lars-Peter:
>
>         Thanks for you reply!
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the patch. Aren't those two expressions equivalent? Are 
>> you seeing an issue with the current code? If so can you include that 
>> in the commit message?
>>
>> - Lars
>>
>>
>        When submitting this patch, I actually thought about it for a 
> while, but finally decided to submit it, my reason is as follows:
>
>         In numerical data of address, &ad7768_interrupt is equal to 
> ad7768_interrupt, and the compilation can pass. But I think they are 
> not the same, ad7768_interrupt is the first
>
> address of the function, and its type is irqreturn_t, 
> &ad7768_interrupt represents the address of an object that points to 
> the function ad7768_interrupt().
>
>         So I think they are not the same, For previous experience with 
> devm_request_irq(), I send this patch. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry to 
> bother you.
>
Have a look at 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6893285/why-do-function-pointer-definitions-work-with-any-number-of-ampersands-or-as 
for some background on this.

You can also easily verify that they are the same with a simple test program

static void foo(void) {}

int main(void) {
     printf("%p %p %d\n", foo, &foo, foo == &foo);
}