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SubjectRe: [PARCH] driver core: add driver_find to find a driver by name
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On Thursday 15 July 2004 07:30 am, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 04:02:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:26:03PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Here is a patch that adds driver_find() that allows to search for a driver
> > > on a bus by it's name. The function is similar to device_find already present
> > > in the tree. I need it for my serio sysfs patches where user can re-bind
> > > serio port to an alternate driver by echoing driver's name to serio port's
> > > driver attribute.
> >
> > Applied, thanks.
>
> Dmitry,
>
> I remember you fixed kset_find_obj() to get a reference count on the kobject.
>
> driver_find()/device_find() use that, maybe it would be nice to add a comment
> on top of those saying the caller is responsible for putting the refcount
> on the kobject?
>
> Last time I looked at your patches there was no such comment on driver_find/device_find,
> only kset_find_obj().
>
> Just nitpicking.
>

Hi Marcelo,

I tried to document driver_find, device_find and find_bus, please check out
the version that Greg has committed. If comments still somewhat unclear I
will try redoing them.

--
Dmitry
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