linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 20/57] platform: Add a helper to find device by driver

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Message-ID: <2117016.xXqOXZeE10@phil>
Date:   Tue, 04 Jun 2019 15:29:04 +0200
From:   Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:     Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        rafael@...nel.org, Inki Dae <inki.dae@...sung.com>,
        Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@...sung.com>,
        Sandy Huang <hjc@...k-chips.com>, Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 20/57] platform: Add a helper to find device by driver

Hi,

Am Montag, 3. Juni 2019, 17:49:46 CEST schrieb Suzuki K Poulose:
> There are a couple of places where we reuse platform specific
> match to find a device. Instead of spilling the global varilable
> everywhere, let us provide a helper to do the same.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
> Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@...sung.com>
> Cc: Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@...sung.com>
> Cc: Sandy Huang <hjc@...k-chips.com>
> Cc: "Heiko Stübner" <heiko@...ech.de>
> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>

> diff --git a/include/linux/platform_device.h b/include/linux/platform_device.h
> index cc46485..a82b3ec 100644
> --- a/include/linux/platform_device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h
> @@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ extern struct device platform_bus;
>  extern void arch_setup_pdev_archdata(struct platform_device *);
>  extern struct resource *platform_get_resource(struct platform_device *,
>  					      unsigned int, unsigned int);
> +extern struct device *
> +platform_find_device_by_driver(struct device dev*,
> +			       const struct device_driver *drv);

the "dev*" causes compilation errors and also doesn't match the
function definition. With "dev*" -> "*start" it compiles again and
my rockchip drm driver still manages to find its components, so
after the above issue is fixed:

Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>