Re: [PATCH 1/2] driver core: provide device_match_fwnode_ext()

From: Bartosz Golaszewski

Date: Thu Feb 19 2026 - 11:40:08 EST


On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 5:36 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 05:31:22PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > Provide an extended variant of device_match_fwnode() that also tries to
> > match the device's secondary fwnode.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/base/core.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> > include/linux/device/bus.h | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> > index f599a1384eec90c104601422b04dc2b4c19d4382..bbf1337978fafc35eb94bda85e0bb7f6879879c0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> > @@ -5326,6 +5326,20 @@ int device_match_fwnode(struct device *dev, const void *fwnode)
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_match_fwnode);
> >
> > +int device_match_fwnode_ext(struct device *dev, const void *fwnode)
>
> No kernel doc to explain what this function does?
>
> :(
>

It's not like any of the other variants from this file were documented
but ok, I can add it in v2. Still, I'd like to hear if this even makes
sense.

Bart