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=-7.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,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 A51E6C282CE for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 08:33:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2A92173E for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 08:33:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726997AbfFDIdL (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2019 04:33:11 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:37614 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726828AbfFDIdL (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2019 04:33:11 -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 C8D8DA78; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 01:33:10 -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 2A4A73F246; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 01:33:10 -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> <20190603191216.GF6487@kroah.com> From: Suzuki K Poulose Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 09:33:05 +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: <20190603191216.GF6487@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 20:12, 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(+) >> >> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h >> index 52d59d5..68d6e04 100644 >> --- a/include/linux/device.h >> +++ b/include/linux/device.h >> @@ -401,6 +401,50 @@ struct device *driver_find_device(struct device_driver *drv, >> struct device *start, void *data, >> int (*match)(struct device *dev, const void *data)); >> >> +/** >> + * driver_find_device_by_name - device iterator for locating a particular device >> + * of a specific name. >> + * @driver: the driver we're iterating >> + * @start: Device to begin with >> + * @name: name of the device to match >> + */ >> +static inline struct device *driver_find_device_by_name(struct device_driver *drv, >> + struct device *start, >> + const char *name) >> +{ >> + return driver_find_device(drv, start, (void *)name, device_match_name); >> +} > > Are any of the users you are finding for these new functions ever using > the 'start' parameter? If not, let's just drop it, as it's normally a > rare thing to care about, right? No, they don't except for the bus_find_next_device() at the end of the series. I could clean this up. Cheers Suzuki