Re: [PATCH v2 00/28] drivers: Consolidate device lookup helpers

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 06:53:55PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> We have device iterators to find a particular device matching a criteria
> for a given bus/class/driver. i.e, {bus,class,driver}_find_device() APIs.
> The matching criteria is a function pointer for the APIs. Often the lookup
> is based on a generic property of a device (e.g, name, fwnode, of node pointer
> or device type) rather than a driver specific information. However, each driver
> writes up its own "match" function, spilling the similar match functions all
> over the driver subsystems.
> 
> Additionally the prototype for the "match" functions accepted by the above APIs
> have a minute difference which prevents us otherwise sharing the match functions.
> i.e,
> 	int (*match)(struct device *dev, void *data) for {bus/driver}_find_device()
> 	  vs
> 	int (*match)(struct device *dev, const void *) for class_find_device()
> 
> If we promote the former to accept a "const void*" parameter, we could share one
> single match function for all the helpers. This series achieves the following:
> 
>  a) [Patches 03-05] Unify the prototype for "match" functions accepted by the
>      device lookup APIs.

I've applied the first 6 patches of this series to my tree now.  Let's
see how that goes, and this should give you a more solid base to redo
the rest of the series off of.

thanks,

greg k-h