Messages in this thread | | | From | "A.s. Dong" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v7 1/6] dt-bindings: mailbox: allow mbox-cells to be equal to 0 | Date | Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:00:27 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Jassi Brar [mailto:jassisinghbrar@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 5:42 PM > To: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> > Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>; Fabio Estevam > <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>; Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>; Mark > Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>; A.s. Dong <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>; > Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>; Sudeep Holla > <sudeep.holla@arm.com>; Devicetree List <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>; > Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; , Sascha Hauer > <kernel@pengutronix.de>; , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux- > mediatek@lists.infradead.org, srv_heupstream <linux-arm- > kernel@lists.infradead.org>; dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@nxp.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] dt-bindings: mailbox: allow mbox-cells to be > equal to 0 > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> > wrote: > > From: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com> > > > > Mailbox devices may have only one channel which means the mbox-cells > > at least 1 does not make sense for this type devices. Let's remove > > that limitation to allow the mbox-cells to be equal to 0. > > > OK > > But please realise that you'll have to write more code -- implement your own > of_xlate() callback. > Most developers would prefer to call the only channel as channel number 0, > and use the common of_xlate implementation. >
Yes, that's true because the common of_xlate assuming the mbox-cells is 1. And there's already such users: arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x.dtsi
More comments will be on your reply of patch-3.
Regards Dong Aisheng
> -jassi
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