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From: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
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	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mailbox: sunxi-msgbox: Add a new mailbox driver
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:44:18 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABb+yY3nfVxoA9wy1ym4mtCTKCZtJjepUTr7OP1uUPmzOEzniA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9e14058-6ffb-e54a-1565-f228342ee1f0@sholland.org>

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:21 PM, Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02/28/18 03:16, Jassi Brar wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 7:57 AM, Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org> wrote:
>> ....
>>
>>> +/*
>>> + * The message box hardware provides 8 unidirectional channels. As the mailbox
>>> + * framework expects them to be bidirectional
>>>
>> That is incorrect. Mailbox framework does not require a channel to be
>> TX and RX capable.
>
> Sorry, it would be more accurate to say that the intended mailbox _client_
> expects the channels to be bidirectional.
>
Mailbox clients are very mailbox provider specific. Your client driver
is unlikely to be reuseable over another controller+remote combo.
Your client has to know already what a physical channel can do (RX, TX
or RXTX). There is no api to provide that info.

thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-28 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-28  2:27 [PATCH 0/3] Allwinner sunxi message box support Samuel Holland
2018-02-28  2:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: Add a binding for the sunxi message box Samuel Holland
2018-02-28  8:28   ` Maxime Ripard
2018-02-28 17:17     ` Andre Przywara
2018-03-01 10:03       ` Maxime Ripard
2018-02-28 17:52     ` Samuel Holland
2018-02-28  2:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] mailbox: Avoid NULL dereference in mbox_chan_received_data Samuel Holland
2018-02-28 17:17   ` Andre Przywara
2018-03-01 13:32   ` Jassi Brar
2018-02-28  2:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] mailbox: sunxi-msgbox: Add a new mailbox driver Samuel Holland
2018-02-28  8:32   ` Maxime Ripard
2018-02-28 17:19     ` Samuel Holland
2018-03-01 10:32       ` Maxime Ripard
2018-03-01 11:32         ` Andre Przywara
2018-03-01 11:51           ` Maxime Ripard
2018-02-28  9:16   ` Jassi Brar
2018-02-28 17:51     ` Samuel Holland
2018-02-28 18:14       ` Jassi Brar [this message]
2018-02-28 18:56         ` Samuel Holland
2018-03-01  5:22           ` Jassi Brar
2018-02-28  8:24 ` [PATCH 0/3] Allwinner sunxi message box support Maxime Ripard
2018-02-28 17:18   ` Samuel Holland
2018-03-01 10:28     ` Maxime Ripard

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