linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] driver core: Introduce device_find_first

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Message-ID: <YqCUv55XKmUfe1J5@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Jun 2022 14:23:27 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-spi <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] driver core: Introduce device_find_first_child()
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 02:15:19PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 2:04 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 02:53:28PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 01:29:08PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 10:22 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > > > <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > I would define it as
> > > >
> > > > static int match_first(struct device *dev, void *)
> > > > {
> > > >        return 1;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > struct device *device_find_first_child(struct device *parent)
> > > > {
> > > >         return device_find_first_child(parent, NULL, match_first);
> > > > }
> > > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_find_first_child);
> > > >
> > > > which is not that much more overhead.
> > >
> > > With this we actually may simply provide a match function and it will make the
> > > clean ups (like patch 2 in the series) almost the same without introducing a
> > > device core call.
> > >
> > > Something like
> > >
> > > int device_match_any_for_find(struct device *dev, void *unused)
> > > {
> > >       return 1;
> > > }
> > >
> > > As I replied to Greg it's pity we can't use device_match_any()...
> >
> >         int device_match_any(struct device *dev, const void *unused)
> >
> > How is that not ok to use here?
> 
> Because of the const that will be frowned upon by the compiler.
> 
> We need to define another device_match_any_relaxed() taking (void *)
> as the second argument for this.

Or we could cast it away :)