driver core: create class_is_registered()

Some classes (i.e. gpio), want to know if they have been registered or
not, and poke around in the class's internal structures to try to figure
this out.  Because this is not really a good idea, provide a function
for classes to call to try to figure this out.

Note, this is racy as the state of the class could change at any moment
in time after the call is made, but as usually a class only wants to
know if it has been registered yet or not, it should be fairly safe to
use, and is just as safe as the previous "poke at the class internals"
check was.

Move the gpiolib code to use this function as proof that it works
properly.

Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230331093318.82288-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/device/class.h b/include/linux/device/class.h
index b53728ca56fb..9cb5db0588c8 100644
--- a/include/linux/device/class.h
+++ b/include/linux/device/class.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ extern struct kobject *sysfs_dev_block_kobj;
 
 int __must_check class_register(struct class *class);
 void class_unregister(const struct class *class);
+bool class_is_registered(const struct class *class);
 
 struct class_compat;
 struct class_compat *class_compat_register(const char *name);