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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Driver core: add bus_find_device_by_fwnode
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 12:06:13PM +0530, Silesh C V wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:48 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:05:55AM +0530, Silesh C V wrote:
> > > Some drivers need to find the device on a bus having a specific firmware
> > > node. Currently, such drivers have their own implementations to do this.
> > > Provide a helper similar to bus_find_device_by_name so that each driver
> > > does not have to reinvent this.
> >
> > Is there a second patch that uses this function? We don't add api calls
> > that are not used.
>
> OK. If I change, say, of_find_i2c_device_by_node,
> of_find_i2c_adapter_by_node, of_phy_find_device and
> of_find_spi_device_by_node to use this API, will that be good enough?
> If that is OK, I will send this as a series in v2.

I have no idea. Why would you want to create a new api call with no
users? Let's see the patch series before being able to properly judge
it...

thanks,

greg k-h

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