1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>driver_find_device</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Device Drivers"><link rel="up" href="ch02s02.html" title="Device Drivers Base"><link rel="prev" href="API-driver-for-each-device.html" title="driver_for_each_device"><link rel="next" href="API-driver-create-file.html" title="driver_create_file"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">driver_find_device</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-driver-for-each-device.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Device Drivers Base</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-driver-create-file.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-driver-find-device"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>driver_find_device &#8212; 
2     device iterator for locating a particular device.
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">struct device * <b class="fsfunc">driver_find_device </b>(</code></td><td>struct device_driver * <var class="pdparam">drv</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>struct device * <var class="pdparam">start</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>void * <var class="pdparam">data</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>int (*<var class="pdparam">match</var>)
4     <code>(</code>struct device *dev, void *data<code>)</code><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1109190692"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>drv</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
5     The device's driver
6    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>start</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
7     Device to begin with
8    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>data</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
9     Data to pass to match function
10    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>match</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
11     Callback function to check device
12    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1109195388"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
13   This is similar to the <code class="function">driver_for_each_device</code> function above, but
14   it returns a reference to a device that is 'found' for later use, as
15   determined by the <em class="parameter"><code>match</code></em> callback.
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18   The callback should return 0 if the device doesn't match and non-zero
19   if it does.  If the callback returns non-zero, this function will
20   return to the caller and not iterate over any more devices.
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