linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 46/57] driver: Add variants of driver_find

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Date:   Mon, 3 Jun 2019 21:10:41 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rafael@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 46/57] driver: Add variants of driver_find_device()

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@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
> ---
>  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