[U-Boot] [PATCH V4 06/10] dm: core: uclass: add function: uclass_find_device_by_name()

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Apr 19 15:23:39 CEST 2015


Hi Przemyslaw,

On 15 April 2015 at 05:07, Przemyslaw Marczak <p.marczak at samsung.com> wrote:
> This commit extends the driver model uclass's API by function:
> - uclass_find_device_by_name()
>
> And this function returns the device if:
> - uclass with given ID, exists,
> - device with exactly given name(dev->name), exists.
>
> The returned device is not activated - need to be probed before use.
>
> Note:
> This function returns the first device, which name is equal
> to the given one. This means, that using this function you must
> assume, that the device name is unique in the given uclass's ID
> device list.
>
> uclass-internal.h: cleanup - move the uclass_find_device_by_seq()
> declaration and description, near the other uclass_find*() functions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Przemyslaw Marczak <p.marczak at samsung.com>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

This uses strncmp() so I thing the function comment should say that it
searches only for the part of the name provided. But I suppose this is
a minor point.

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Regards,
Simon


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