[PATCH] of: add of_find_child_by_name implementation

[Karicheri, Muralidharan]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Karicheri, Muralidharan
>> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:42 AM
>> To: grant.likely at secretlab.ca; rob.herring at calxeda.com; devicetree-
>> discuss at lists.ozlabs.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: Karicheri, Muralidharan; Chemparathy, Cyril
>> Subject: [PATCH] of: add of_find_child_by_name implementation
>> 
>> This patch adds a helper to find a child node by name.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <cyril at ti.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2 at ti.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/of/base.c  |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/linux/of.h |    2 ++
>>  2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
>> index d4a1c9a..bbdd0d4 100644
>> --- a/drivers/of/base.c
>> +++ b/drivers/of/base.c
>> @@ -441,6 +441,26 @@ struct device_node *of_find_node_by_name(struct
>> device_node *from,
>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_node_by_name);
>> 
>>  /**
>> + *	of_find_child_by_name - Find a child node by its "name" property
>> + *	@parent:The parent node to search from
>> + *	@name:	The name string to match against
>> + *
>> + *	Returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, use
>> + *	of_node_put() on it when done.
>> + */
>> +struct device_node *of_find_child_by_name(struct device_node *parent,
>> +					  const char *name)
>> +{
>> +	struct device_node *child;
>> +
>> +	for_each_child_of_node(parent, child)
>> +		if (child->name && of_node_cmp(child->name, name) == 0)
>> +			break;
>> +	return child;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_child_by_name);
>> +
>> +/**
>>   *	of_find_node_by_type - Find a node by its "device_type" property
>>   *	@from:	The node to start searching from, or NULL to start searching
>>   *		the entire device tree. The node you pass will not be
>> diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
>> index 1b11632..a4cc8e7 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/of.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/of.h
>> @@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ extern struct device_node *of_get_next_child(const struct
>> device_node *node,
>>  extern struct device_node *of_get_next_available_child(
>>  	const struct device_node *node, struct device_node *prev);
>> 
>> +struct device_node *of_find_child_by_name(struct device_node *parent,
>> +					  const char *name);
>>  #define for_each_child_of_node(parent, child) \
>>  	for (child = of_get_next_child(parent, NULL); child != NULL; \
>>  	     child = of_get_next_child(parent, child))
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5

Can someone review this? If this is okay, can this be merged to the next branch please?

Murali