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 <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);
Why is the cast needed?
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * 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);
Same here.
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * 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);
And here
thanks,
greg k-h
