linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Driver core: add bus_find_device_by

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Date:   Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:06:13 +0530
From:   Silesh C V <svellattu@...sta.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver core: add bus_find_device_by_fwnode

Hello Greg,
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:48 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:05:55AM +0530, Silesh C V wrote:
> > Some drivers need to find the device on a bus having a specific firmware
> > node. Currently, such drivers have their own implementations to do this.
> > Provide a helper similar to bus_find_device_by_name so that each driver
> > does not have to reinvent this.
>
> Is there a second patch that uses this function?  We don't add api calls
> that are not used.

OK. If I change, say, of_find_i2c_device_by_node,
of_find_i2c_adapter_by_node, of_phy_find_device and
of_find_spi_device_by_node to use this API, will that be good enough?
If that is OK, I will send this as a series in v2.
Thanks.

Regards,
Silesh