From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv8 2/2] mailbox: Introduce framework for mailbox
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:16:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5340858.B9CZUE8s0j@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53C64883.2050709@arm.com>
On Wednesday 16 July 2014 10:40:19 Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > +
> > +Required property:
> > +- mbox: List of phandle and mailbox channel specifier.
> > +
> > +- mbox-names: List of identifier strings for each mailbox channel
> > + required by the client.
> > +
>
> IMO the mailbox names are more associated with the controller channels/
> mailbox rather than the clients using it. Does it make sense to move
> this under controller. It also avoid each client replicating the names.
I think it would be best to just make the mbox-names property optional,
like we have for other subsystems.
Doing it in the mbox-controller makes no sense at all, because the
mbox controller has (or should have) no idea what the attached devices are.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-16 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-11 9:32 [PATCHv8 0/2] Common Mailbox Framework Jassi Brar
2014-07-11 9:34 ` [PATCHv8 1/2] mailbox: rename pl320-ipc specific mailbox.h Jassi Brar
2014-07-11 17:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-11 9:35 ` [PATCHv8 2/2] mailbox: Introduce framework for mailbox Jassi Brar
2014-07-11 11:46 ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-07-14 4:17 ` Jassi Brar
2014-07-14 8:04 ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-07-11 17:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-14 5:40 ` Jassi Brar
2014-07-11 22:09 ` Markus Mayer
2014-07-14 4:56 ` Jassi Brar
2014-07-16 9:40 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-07-16 10:16 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-07-16 11:16 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-07-16 11:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-16 13:29 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-07-16 12:37 ` Jassi Brar
2014-07-16 12:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-16 13:05 ` Jassi Brar
2014-07-16 13:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-16 13:12 ` Jassi Brar
2014-07-16 14:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-16 14:18 ` Jassi Brar
2014-07-16 16:09 ` Suman Anna
2014-07-17 7:25 ` Jassi Brar
2014-07-16 14:34 ` Sudeep Holla
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