[PATCH net-next v4 05/10] drivers: base: Add device_find_in_class_name()

On 01/17/2017 03:34 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Florian Fainelli [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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.

quoted

+static int device_class_name_match(struct device *dev, void *class)

And why not const char *class?

This was raised back in v2, and the same response applies:

https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev at vger.kernel.org/msg147559.html

Changing the signature of a callback is out of the scope of this patch
series.
-- 
Florian