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=-5.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,T_DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT 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 2E35AC04AB5 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2019 19:10:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC78240BB for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2019 19:10:46 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1559589046; bh=bEvD0r2Sjt48o7ToqRmBYPk7t1raS7UySLlJA9KDfRI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=WX5VNzcqCVO8M6hwjYokdOnzsKCwlUaC2ZG79XlENtfuFsPV4uy0j9dadZ3D18RN/ mIpeVhZcV2bFgitBGT/sQDYpRyeV/53MPPIZhxAP6mB6D2bVUqczHAbt6al02rVQkR i/Q2GaVMi+nOHhItLOxCHSyV5JXUzZ3ujP4AaatA= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726637AbfFCTKp (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jun 2019 15:10:45 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:46318 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726136AbfFCTKo (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jun 2019 15:10:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CD17E2409E; Mon, 3 Jun 2019 19:10:43 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1559589044; bh=bEvD0r2Sjt48o7ToqRmBYPk7t1raS7UySLlJA9KDfRI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=hbhGBAvCFK6tM2OvL9Rjf90WdEyNTYYQkv3OQJM4f1JRT+kaUgxrNeWf8khJe3TqY mjffvnK1oP2wldomOdciz6GvAp91IHPxxaRrXm6SAJJUKL3OIvWgSlfqG0HUWC+z+y 6R/HOlA/d1L7woJMf51ldEQg+lIlfZPGvq5GZbzc= Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 21:10:41 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Suzuki K Poulose Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 46/57] driver: Add variants of driver_find_device() Message-ID: <20190603191041.GD6487@kroah.com> References: <1559577023-558-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <1559577023-558-47-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1559577023-558-47-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.0 (2019-05-25) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. 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. thanks, greg k-h