diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index 0e95fcc..358076e 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -125,6 +125,16 @@
 
 extern irqreturn_t no_action(int cpl, void *dev_id);
 
+/*
+ * If a (PCI) device interrupt is not connected we set dev->irq to
+ * IRQ_NOTCONNECTED. This causes request_irq() to fail with -ENOTCONN, so we
+ * can distingiush that case from other error returns.
+ *
+ * 0x80000000 is guaranteed to be outside the available range of interrupts
+ * and easy to distinguish from other possible incorrect values.
+ */
+#define IRQ_NOTCONNECTED	(1U << 31)
+
 extern int __must_check
 request_threaded_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t handler,
 		     irq_handler_t thread_fn,