Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] driver core: Find an existing link between two devices | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:12:05 +0100 |
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On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 12:23:34 PM CET Tomasz Figa wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:34 PM, Vivek Gautam > <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > Hi Tomasz, > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> wrote: > >> Hi Vivek, > >> > >> Thanks for the patch. > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 5:55 PM, Vivek Gautam > >> <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> wrote: > >>> The lists managing the device-links can be traversed to > >>> find the link between two devices. The device_link_add() APIs > >>> does traverse these lists to check if there's already a link > >>> setup between the two devices. > >>> So, add a new APIs, device_link_find(), to find an existing > >>> device link between two devices - suppliers and consumers. > >> > >> I'm wondering if this API would be useful for anything else that the > >> problem we're trying to solve with deleting links without storing them > >> anywhere. Perhaps a device_link_del_dev(consumer, supplier) would be a > >> better alternative? > > > > Yea, that sounds simpler i think. Will add this API instead of > > find_link(). Thanks. > > Perhaps let's wait for a moment to see if there are other opinions. :) > > Rafael, Lucas, any thoughts?
It is not clear to me what the device_link_del_dev(consumer, supplier) would do.
Thanks, Rafael
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