[PATCH v3 0/7] drivers: Add generic device lookup helpers

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:18:31PM +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.
> 
> This series adds device match helpers by generic device properties of a device.
> Using these generic match functions, introduce wrappers to the existing
>  *_find_device() helpers and converts the existing users to use the new wrappers.
>  i.e,
> 	{bus/class/driver}_find_device_by_name()
> 	{bus/class/driver}_find_device_by_fwnode()
> 	{bus/class/driver}_find_device_by_devt()
> 	{bus/class/driver}_find_device_by_acpi_dev()
> 
> Also adds a wrapper for finding a platform device by driver, to avoid
> spilling the platform_bus internals in the individual drivers. Applies
> on 5.3-rc1.
> 
>    [0] git://linux-arm.org/linux-skp.git driver-cleanup/v3
> RFC[1] https://marc.info/?i=1559577023-558-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
> V1 [2] https://marc.info/?i=1559747630-28065-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
> V2 [3] https://marc.info/?i=1560534863-15115-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
> 
> Changes since v2:
>  - Merge the device match helper introduction patch with the variants
>    of the helpers, for better review.
>  - Use platform_find_device_by_driver for mcde drm driver.

This looks good to me at first glance, thanks for doing this work.

I'll wait a few days to collect acks from various subsystem maintainers
before taking the series in my tree.

thanks,

greg k-h