Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <info@metux.net>
---
 drivers/of/base.c  | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/of.h |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
index e5ef611ed233..649c2a32bb48 100644
--- a/drivers/of/base.c
+++ b/drivers/of/base.c

@@ -287,6 +287,38 @@ const void *of_get_property(const struct device_node *np, const char *name,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_get_property);

 /*
+ * of_match_string - match a propery against given string
+ * @node: device_node to look up at
+ * @name: name of the property
+ * @value: value to match against
+ *
+ * Look for property by name and match all string elements against value.
+ * Returns true if the property exists and any one of the string elements
+ * matches the given value.
+ */
+bool of_match_string(const struct device_node *node, const char* name,
+                    const char* value)
+{
+       struct property *prop;
+       const char *walk;
+
+       if (!name || !value)
+               return false;
+
+       prop = of_find_property(node, name, NULL);
+       if (!prop)
+               return false;
+
+       for (walk=of_prop_next_string(prop, NULL); walk;
+            walk=of_prop_next_string(prop, walk)) {
+               if (strcmp(walk, value)==0)
+                       return true;
+       }
+       return true;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_match_string);
+
+/*
  * arch_match_cpu_phys_id - Match the given logical CPU and physical id
  *
  * @cpu: logical cpu index of a core/thread

diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
index dbf2c7442389..3612429632f4 100644
--- a/include/linux/of.h
+++ b/include/linux/of.h

@@ -355,6 +355,8 @@ extern bool of_device_is_big_endian(const struct device_node *device);
 extern const void *of_get_property(const struct device_node *node,
                                const char *name,
                                int *lenp);
+extern bool of_match_string(const struct device_node *node, const char* name,
+                           const char* value);
 extern struct device_node *of_get_cpu_node(int cpu, unsigned int *thread);
 extern struct device_node *of_get_next_cpu_node(struct device_node *prev);
 extern struct device_node *of_get_cpu_state_node(struct device_node *cpu_node,
--

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