driver core: Add device_link_remove function

Device_link_remove uses the same arguments than device_link_add. The Goal
is to avoid storing the link pointer.

Signed-off-by: pascal paillet <p.paillet@st.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

drivers/base/core.c

@@ -365,6 +365,36 @@ void device_link_del(struct device_link *link)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_link_del);
 
+/**
+ * device_link_remove - remove a link between two devices.
+ * @consumer: Consumer end of the link.
+ * @supplier: Supplier end of the link.
+ *
+ * The caller must ensure proper synchronization of this function with runtime
+ * PM.
+ */
+void device_link_remove(void *consumer, struct device *supplier)
+{
+	struct device_link *link;
+
+	if (WARN_ON(consumer == supplier))
+		return;
+
+	device_links_write_lock();
+	device_pm_lock();
+
+	list_for_each_entry(link, &supplier->links.consumers, s_node) {
+		if (link->consumer == consumer) {
+			kref_put(&link->kref, __device_link_del);
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	device_pm_unlock();
+	device_links_write_unlock();
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_link_remove);
+
 static void device_links_missing_supplier(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct device_link *link;

include/linux/device.h

@@ -1316,6 +1316,7 @@ extern const char *dev_driver_string(const struct device *dev);
 struct device_link *device_link_add(struct device *consumer,
 				    struct device *supplier, u32 flags);
 void device_link_del(struct device_link *link);
+void device_link_remove(void *consumer, struct device *supplier);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK