From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:41:16 -0800
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Add a helper function to lookup a device reference given a class name.
This is a preliminary patch to remove adhoc code from net/dsa/dsa.c and
make it more generic.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
---
drivers/base/core.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/device.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 020ea7f05520..3dd6047c10d8 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -2065,6 +2065,25 @@ struct device *device_find_child(struct device *parent, void *data,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_find_child);
+static int dev_is_class(struct device *dev, void *class)
I know you are just moving code, but this class argumnet is a string
and thus should be "char *" or even "const char *".