Commit dad9bb01 authored by Heikki Krogerus's avatar Heikki Krogerus Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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driver core: Add helper device_find_child_by_name()



It looks like the child device is often matched with a name.
This introduces a helper that does it automatically.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHeikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tested-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
parent b06184ac
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@@ -2474,6 +2474,34 @@ struct device *device_find_child(struct device *parent, void *data,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_find_child);

/**
 * device_find_child_by_name - device iterator for locating a child device.
 * @parent: parent struct device
 * @name: name of the child device
 *
 * This is similar to the device_find_child() function above, but it
 * returns a reference to a device that has the name @name.
 *
 * NOTE: you will need to drop the reference with put_device() after use.
 */
struct device *device_find_child_by_name(struct device *parent,
					 const char *name)
{
	struct klist_iter i;
	struct device *child;

	if (!parent)
		return NULL;

	klist_iter_init(&parent->p->klist_children, &i);
	while ((child = next_device(&i)))
		if (!strcmp(dev_name(child), name) && get_device(child))
			break;
	klist_iter_exit(&i);
	return child;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_find_child_by_name);

int __init devices_init(void)
{
	devices_kset = kset_create_and_add("devices", &device_uevent_ops, NULL);
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@@ -1250,6 +1250,8 @@ extern int device_for_each_child_reverse(struct device *dev, void *data,
		     int (*fn)(struct device *dev, void *data));
extern struct device *device_find_child(struct device *dev, void *data,
				int (*match)(struct device *dev, void *data));
extern struct device *device_find_child_by_name(struct device *parent,
						const char *name);
extern int device_rename(struct device *dev, const char *new_name);
extern int device_move(struct device *dev, struct device *new_parent,
		       enum dpm_order dpm_order);