Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv8 2/2] mailbox: Introduce framework for mailbox | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:16:22 +0200 |
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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
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