From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:41:16 -0800
> Add a helper function to lookup a device reference given a class name. > This is a preliminary patch to remove adhoc code from net/dsa/dsa.c and > make it more generic. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> > --- > drivers/base/core.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/device.h | 1 + > 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c > index 020ea7f05520..3dd6047c10d8 100644 > --- a/drivers/base/core.c > +++ b/drivers/base/core.c > @@ -2065,6 +2065,25 @@ struct device *device_find_child(struct device > *parent, void *data, > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_find_child); > > +static int dev_is_class(struct device *dev, void *class) I know you are just moving code, but this class argumnet is a string and thus should be "char *" or even "const char *".
