Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:04:53 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Driver core: add bus_find_device_by_fwnode |
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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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