In several drivers devices use the ACPI companion of the parent. Add a helper for this use case to avoid code duplication. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/acpi.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/acpi.h b/include/linux/acpi.h index ba3f601b6..89efb1658 100644 --- a/include/linux/acpi.h +++ b/include/linux/acpi.h @@ -1541,4 +1541,9 @@ static inline void acpi_device_notify(struct device *dev) { } static inline void acpi_device_notify_remove(struct device *dev) { } #endif +static inline void acpi_use_parent_companion(struct device *dev) +{ + ACPI_COMPANION_SET(dev, ACPI_COMPANION(dev->parent)); +} + #endif /*_LINUX_ACPI_H*/ -- 2.42.0