Add a wrapper to driver_find_device() to search for a device by the device type, reusing the generic match function.
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]> --- include/linux/device.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index 2cf49f7..f7f6a43 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -463,6 +463,18 @@ driver_find_device_by_fwnode(struct device_driver *drv, return driver_find_device(drv, NULL, fwnode, device_match_fwnode); } +/** + * driver_find_device_by_devt- device iterator for locating a particular device + * by devt. + * @driver: the driver we're iterating + * @devt: devt pointer to match. + */ +static inline struct device *driver_find_device_by_devt(struct device_driver *drv, + dev_t devt) +{ + return driver_find_device(drv, NULL, &devt, device_match_devt); +} + void driver_deferred_probe_add(struct device *dev); int driver_deferred_probe_check_state(struct device *dev); -- 2.7.4
