<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ANSI_X3.4-1968" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>bus_find_device_by_name</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Device Drivers" /><link rel="up" href="ch02.html#id2617423" title="Device Drivers Base" /><link rel="prev" href="re244.html" title="bus_find_device" /><link rel="next" href="re246.html" title="bus_for_each_drv" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>bus_find_device_by_name</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re244.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Device Drivers Base</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re246.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" title="bus_find_device_by_name"><a id="API-bus-find-device-by-name"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>bus_find_device_by_name — device iterator for locating a particular device of a specific name </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">struct device * <b class="fsfunc">bus_find_device_by_name </b>(</code></td><td>struct bus_type * <var class="pdparam">bus</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>struct device * <var class="pdparam">start</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const char * <var class="pdparam">name</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id2629784"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>bus</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> bus type </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>start</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> Device to begin with </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>name</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> name of the device to match </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="id2629845"></a><h2>Description</h2><p> This is similar to the <code class="function">bus_find_device</code> function above, but it handles searching by a name automatically, no need to write another strcmp matching function. </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re244.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch02.html#id2617423">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re246.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"><span>bus_find_device</span> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> <span>bus_for_each_drv</span></td></tr></table></div></body></html>