Driver Core: add ability for class_for_each_device to start in middle of list

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / drivers / base / class.c

diff --git a/drivers/base/class.c b/drivers/base/class.c
index 71ce3ff6bdf53261af4cc41e5763846803569f27..2eb7048003a803fd25b57ce2a7be3a444ad94d89 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/class.c
@@ -256,11 +256,14 @@ char *make_class_name(const char *name, struct kobject *kobj)
 /**
  * class_for_each_device - device iterator
  * @class: the class we're iterating
+ * @start: the device to start with in the list, if any.
  * @data: data for the callback
  * @fn: function to be called for each device
  *
  * Iterate over @class's list of devices, and call @fn for each,
- * passing it @data.
+ * passing it @data.  If @start is set, the list iteration will start
+ * there, otherwise if it is NULL, the iteration starts at the
+ * beginning of the list.
  *
  * We check the return of @fn each time. If it returns anything
  * other than 0, we break out and return that value.
@@ -269,8 +272,8 @@ char *make_class_name(const char *name, struct kobject *kobj)
  * re-acquired in @fn, otherwise it will self-deadlocking. For
  * example, calls to add or remove class members would be verboten.
  */
-int class_for_each_device(struct class *class, void *data,
-                          int (*fn)(struct device *, void *))
+int class_for_each_device(struct class *class, struct device *start,
+                         void *data, int (*fn)(struct device *, void *))
 {
        struct device *dev;
        int error = 0;
@@ -279,12 +282,14 @@ int class_for_each_device(struct class *class, void *data,
                return -EINVAL;
        down(&class->sem);
        list_for_each_entry(dev, &class->devices, node) {
+               if (start) {
+                       if (start == dev)
+                               start = NULL;
+                       continue;
+               }
                dev = get_device(dev);
-               if (dev) {
-                       error = fn(dev, data);
-                       put_device(dev);
-               } else
-                       error = -ENODEV;
+               error = fn(dev, data);
+               put_device(dev);
                if (error)
                        break;
        }