Add a helper to match the device name
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Aring <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Murphy <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Harald Freudenberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Heikki Krogerus <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <[email protected]>
Cc: Lee Jones <[email protected]>
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Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefan Schmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]>
---
drivers/base/core.c | 6 ++++++
include/linux/device.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 597095b..5724f93 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -3352,3 +3352,9 @@ int device_match_acpi_dev(struct device *dev, const void
*adev)
return ACPI_COMPANION(dev) == adev;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(device_match_acpi_dev);
+
+int device_match_name(struct device *dev, const void *name)
+{
+ return sysfs_streq(dev_name(dev), name);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_match_name);
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index a03b50d..74dd9c6 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ int device_match_of_node(struct device *dev, const void
*np);
int device_match_fwnode(struct device *dev, const void *fwnode);
int device_match_devt(struct device *dev, const void *pdevt);
int device_match_acpi_dev(struct device *dev, const void *adev);
+int device_match_name(struct device *dev, const void *name);
int bus_for_each_dev(struct bus_type *bus, struct device *start, void *data,
int (*fn)(struct device *dev, void *data));
--
2.7.4
