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| author | Teresa Remmet <t.remmet@phytec.de> | 2019-02-13 09:34:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> | 2019-02-13 15:43:19 +0100 |
| commit | b1ffbd0c80ed0c7bb7612d69f0c43049f3008315 (patch) | |
| tree | c2f0e14cb2a8f33fa96f34af5d5de50f78dc2f9f /drivers/of | |
| parent | e63c53267c320a33aee111feb9d340b2f3bad0c1 (diff) | |
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drivers: of: Add function to enable and register a device by alias
In some cases node names are not unique and passing the full path is really long.
So make add a new device by passing the alias string possible.
Signed-off-by: Teresa Remmet <t.remmet@phytec.de>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/of')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/of/platform.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c index ef8969ca8b..d3795d799a 100644 --- a/drivers/of/platform.c +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c @@ -207,6 +207,25 @@ struct device_d *of_device_enable_and_register_by_name(const char *name) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_device_enable_and_register_by_name); +/** + * of_device_enable_and_register_by_alias - Enable and register device by alias + * @name: alias of the device node + * + * Returns pointer to created platform device, or NULL if a device was not + * registered. Unavailable devices will not get registered. + */ +struct device_d *of_device_enable_and_register_by_alias(const char *alias) +{ + struct device_node *node; + + node = of_find_node_by_alias(NULL, alias); + if (!node) + return NULL; + + return of_device_enable_and_register(node); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_device_enable_and_register_by_alias); + #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_AMBA static struct device_d *of_amba_device_create(struct device_node *np) { |