From 745b61171af167dfe5756920f968d976bd4b6366 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 10:48:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Introduce LiveGetDevice function

---
 src/util-device.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/util-device.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/util-device.c b/src/util-device.c
index 94d48df9a7..7549f3a89a 100644
--- a/src/util-device.c
+++ b/src/util-device.c
@@ -93,6 +93,34 @@ char *LiveGetDeviceName(int number) {
     return NULL;
 }
 
+/**
+ *  \brief Get a pointer to the device at idx
+ *
+ *  \param number idx of the device in our list
+ *
+ *  \retval ptr pointer to the string containing the device
+ *  \retval NULL on error
+ */
+LiveDevice *LiveGetDevice(char *name) {
+    int i = 0;
+    LiveDevice *pd;
+
+    if (name == NULL) {
+        SCLogWarning(SC_ERR_INVALID_VALUE, "Name of device should not be null");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    TAILQ_FOREACH(pd, &live_devices, next) {
+        if (!strcmp(name, pd->dev)) {
+            return pd;
+        }
+
+        i++;
+    }
+
+    return NULL;
+}
+
 
 
 int LiveBuildDeviceList(char * runmode)
diff --git a/src/util-device.h b/src/util-device.h
index 77b99bd23c..ce6997f3b9 100644
--- a/src/util-device.h
+++ b/src/util-device.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ typedef struct LiveDevice_ {
 int LiveRegisterDevice(char *dev);
 int LiveGetDeviceCount(void);
 char *LiveGetDeviceName(int number);
+LiveDevice *LiveGetDevice(char *dev);
 int LiveBuildDeviceList(char * base);
 
 #endif /* __UTIL_DEVICE_H__ */