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 <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <raf...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poul...@arm.com> --- 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); +} + +/** + * driver_find_device_by_of_node- device iterator for locating a particular device + * by of_node pointer. + * @driver: the driver we're iterating + * @start: Device to begin with + * @np: of_node pointer to match. + */ +static inline struct device * +driver_find_device_by_of_node(struct device_driver *drv, + struct device *start, + const struct device_node *np) +{ + return driver_find_device(drv, start, (void *)np, device_match_of_node); +} + +/** + * driver_find_device_by_fwnode- device iterator for locating a particular device + * by fwnode pointer. + * @driver: the driver we're iterating + * @start: Device to begin with + * @fwnode: fwnode pointer to match. + */ +static inline struct device * +driver_find_device_by_fwnode(struct device_driver *drv, + struct device *start, + const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode) +{ + return driver_find_device(drv, start, (void *)fwnode, device_match_fwnode); +} + void driver_deferred_probe_add(struct device *dev); int driver_deferred_probe_check_state(struct device *dev); -- 2.7.4