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Date:   Tue, 21 Jun 2022 01:15:45 +0200
From:   Marcin Wojtas <mw@...ihalf.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [net-next: PATCH 05/12] net: core: switch to fwnode_find_net_device_by_node()

pon., 20 cze 2022 o 19:46 Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> napisał(a):
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 05:02:18PM +0200, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> > A helper function which allows getting the struct net_device pointer
> > associated with a given device tree node can be more generic and
> > also support alternative hardware description. Switch to fwnode_
> > and update the only existing caller in DSA subsystem.
>
> ...
>
> > +static int fwnode_dev_node_match(struct device *dev, const void *data)
> >  {
> >       for (; dev; dev = dev->parent) {
> > -             if (dev->of_node == data)
>
> > +             if (dev->fwnode == data)
>
>
> We have a helper in device/bus.h (?) device_match_fwnode().
>

That's true, thanks.

> >                       return 1;
> >       }
>
> But this all sounds like a good candidate to be generic. Do we have more users
> in the kernel of a such?
>

Do you mean fwnode_dev_node_match? I haven't noticed. Indeed, it may
be worth to move this one to drivers/base/property.c - what do you
think?

Thanks,
Marcin