Re: [PATCHv5 2/2] mailbox: Adding driver for Xilinx LogiCORE IP mailbox.

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 09:47 +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> It has to be platform_device somewhere for sure.
> In past we had folder in arch/microblaze/platform folder.
> Currently you can add this code to for example
> arch/microblaze/kernel/platform.c
> 
> But as I said I don't think it is really important. There will be a 
> lot
> of others drivers in the kernel which can be used as platform drivers
> but you are not able to find out platform_device for it.

Because, like probably happens with this driver, the OF infrastructure
makes sure the .probe and .remove functions will eventually called?

> The important part is that driver can work as is.

Sure.

But I was talking about the MODULE_ALIAS() macro. Trivial as it is,
since I still don't see where a "MODALIAS=platform:xilinx-mailbox"
uevent could come from I still don't see the point of this line. As I
asked in my first message: what breaks if this line is dropped?

> Also it is quite common that users create own BSP for their custom
> boards but they don't push it to mainline.

I can't recall what BSP means. Anyhow, why should we care about boards
not pushed into mainline?


Paul Bolle