Re: [RFC PATCH 46/57] driver: Add variants of driver_find_device()

[Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>]

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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@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);
>> +}
> 
> 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