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

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Message-ID: <97a6b41f-7b30-54fc-a633-e59895467902@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 4 Jun 2019 09:45:03 +0100
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rafael@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 46/57] driver: Add variants of driver_find_device()



On 03/06/2019 20:10, 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@...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.

Sure, I will add it in the respective commits.

> 
> 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.

I see. I think I may be able to do that.

Cheers
Suzuki