Re: [RFC PATCH 46/57] driver: Add variants of driver_find_device()

[Suzuki K Poulose]

On 03/06/2019 20:10, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 04:50:12PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > Add a wrappers to lookup a device by name for a given driver, by various
> > generic properties of a device. This can avoid the proliferation of custom
> > match functions throughout the drivers.
> >
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   include/linux/device.h | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)
>
> You should put the "here are the new functions that everyone can use"
> much earlier in the patch series, otherwise it's hard to dig out.

Sure, I will add it in the respective commits.

> And if you send just those as an individual series, and they look good,
> I can queue them up now so that everyone else can take the individual
> patches through their respective trees.

I see. I think I may be able to do that.

Cheers
Suzuki