From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98F6DC282CE for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 08:45:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6639524B90 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 08:45:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727054AbfFDIpG (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2019 04:45:06 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:37866 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726823AbfFDIpG (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2019 04:45:06 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA8BA78; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 01:45:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.196.93] (en101.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.196.93]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6501A3F246; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 01:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 46/57] driver: Add variants of driver_find_device() To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org References: <1559577023-558-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <1559577023-558-47-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <20190603191041.GD6487@kroah.com> From: Suzuki K Poulose Message-ID: <97a6b41f-7b30-54fc-a633-e59895467902@arm.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 09:45:03 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190603191041.GD6487@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/06/2019 20:10, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 04:50:12PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: >> Add a wrappers to lookup a device by name for a given driver, by various >> generic properties of a device. This can avoid the proliferation of custom >> match functions throughout the drivers. >> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman >> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" >> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose >> --- >> include/linux/device.h | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) > > You should put the "here are the new functions that everyone can use" > much earlier in the patch series, otherwise it's hard to dig out. Sure, I will add it in the respective commits. > > And if you send just those as an individual series, and they look good, > I can queue them up now so that everyone else can take the individual > patches through their respective trees. I see. I think I may be able to do that. Cheers Suzuki