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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:37:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Subject: RE: [PARCH] driver core: add driver_find to find a driver by name
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:26:03PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here is a patch that adds driver_find() that allows to search for a
> driver
> > on a bus by it's name. The function is similar to device_find already
> present
> > in the tree. I need it for my serio sysfs patches where user can re-bind
> > serio port to an alternate driver by echoing driver's name to serio
> port's
> > driver attribute.
> 
> It looks like it's missing some refcounting, no?

Actually I think that kset_find_obj is the one that is missing
refcounting - device/driver can easily go away on return from
this function as well, no?

Anyway, usage in serio should be fine as the whole thing is
protected by serio_sem.

--
Dmitry
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