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From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] mailbox: add support for doorbell/signal mode controllers
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 10:01:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190604090123.GC23250@e107533-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABb+yY2ON+etV_g+zBQUrV9x2_0QubUeEPuxs=EKw_JCt570BQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 04:51:05PM -0500, Jassi Brar wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 9:33 AM Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
> > index 38d9df3fb199..e26a079f8223 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
> > @@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ static void msg_submit(struct mbox_chan *chan)
> >         if (chan->cl->tx_prepare)
> >                 chan->cl->tx_prepare(chan->cl, data);
> >         /* Try to submit a message to the MBOX controller */
> > -       err = chan->mbox->ops->send_data(chan, data);
> > +       if (chan->mbox->ops->send_data)
> > +               err = chan->mbox->ops->send_data(chan, data);
> > +       else
> > +               err = chan->mbox->ops->send_signal(chan);
> >         if (!err) {
> >                 chan->active_req = data;
> >                 chan->msg_count--;
> >
> The  'void *data'  parameter in send_data() is controller specific.
> The doorbell controllers should simply ignore that.
> 
> So signal/doorbell controllers are already supported fine. See
> drivers/mailbox/tegra-hsp.c for example.
>

Agreed, I did have that. But then I thought this API makes it even
clearer to the users that no data is expected. I am fine either way.

--
Regards,
Sudeep

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-04  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-31 14:33 [PATCH 0/6] mailbox: arm_mhu: add support to use in doorbell mode Sudeep Holla
2019-05-31 14:33 ` [PATCH 1/6] mailbox: add support for doorbell/signal mode controllers Sudeep Holla
2019-06-03 21:51   ` Jassi Brar
2019-06-04  9:01     ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2019-05-31 14:33 ` [PATCH 2/6] mailbox: arm_mhu: reorder header inclusion and drop unneeded ones Sudeep Holla
2019-05-31 14:33 ` [PATCH 3/6] dt-bindings: mailbox: add bindings to support ARM MHU doorbells Sudeep Holla
2019-05-31 14:33 ` [PATCH 4/6] mailbox: arm_mhu: migrate to threaded irq handler Sudeep Holla
2019-05-31 14:33 ` [PATCH 5/6] mailbox: arm_mhu: re-factor data structure to add doorbell support Sudeep Holla
2019-05-31 14:33 ` [PATCH 6/6] mailbox: arm_mhu: add full support for the doorbells Sudeep Holla
2019-05-31 16:21 ` [PATCH 0/6] mailbox: arm_mhu: add support to use in doorbell mode Jassi Brar
2019-05-31 16:53   ` Sudeep Holla
2019-06-03 19:39     ` Mark Brown
2019-06-04  9:44       ` Sudeep Holla
2019-06-05 19:46         ` Mark Brown
2019-06-06  0:51           ` Jassi Brar
2019-06-06 12:51             ` Sudeep Holla
2019-06-06 15:20               ` Jassi Brar
2019-06-06 15:40                 ` Sudeep Holla
2019-06-13 15:08                   ` Sudeep Holla

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