Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] driver core: Find an existing link between two devices

[Vivek Gautam]

Hi Tomasz,

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Vivek,
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 5:55 PM, Vivek Gautam
> <vivek.gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The lists managing the device-links can be traversed to
>> find the link between two devices. The device_link_add() APIs
>> does traverse these lists to check if there's already a link
>> setup between the two devices.
>> So, add a new APIs, device_link_find(), to find an existing
>> device link between two devices - suppliers and consumers.
>
> I'm wondering if this API would be useful for anything else that the
> problem we're trying to solve with deleting links without storing them
> anywhere. Perhaps a device_link_del_dev(consumer, supplier) would be a
> better alternative?

Yea, that sounds simpler i think. Will add this API instead of
find_link(). Thanks.

regards
vivek
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz
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