Re: [PARCH] driver core: add driver_find to find a driver by name

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

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