Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] driver core: Introduce device_find_first_child() helper

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 1:54 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 01:29:08PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 10:22 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > I would define it as
> >
> > static int match_first(struct device *dev, void *)
> > {
> >        return 1;
> > }
> >
> > struct device *device_find_first_child(struct device *parent)
> > {
> >         return device_find_first_child(parent, NULL, match_first);
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_find_first_child);
> >
> > which is not that much more overhead.
>
> With this we actually may simply provide a match function and it will make the
> clean ups (like patch 2 in the series) almost the same without introducing a
> device core call.

That works too, but IMO it would be a bit cleaner to have the wrapper
defined as a proper function.

>
> Something like
>
> int device_match_any_for_find(struct device *dev, void *unused)
> {
>         return 1;
> }
>
> As I replied to Greg it's pity we can't use device_match_any()...

Well, that only is a matter of adding one more variant of _match_any_ ...