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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] dt-bindings: soc: qcom: Add label for GLINK bindings
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On 12/21/2017 11:36 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 12/20/2017 05:35 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>> On Wed 20 Dec 10:30 PST 2017, Rob Herring wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 02:02:09PM -0800, Chris Lew wrote:
>>>> Add a label property to identify the edge this node represents.
>>> Why does a user need to know this?
>>>
>> We have multiple remoteproc instances, each one having one or more
>> associated SMD or GLINK links (this node), exposing logical
>> communication channels. Some of these logical channels are exposed to
>> user space and we need a way to distinguish them there.
>>
>> In the current implementation of SMD this value goes straight into an
>> sysfs attribute that we can use when writing udev rules and for the DIAG
>> implementation to pair up channels related to the same remoteproc. This
>> adds the equivalent information for glink-backed channels.
>>
>>
>> I'm therefor in favor of picking this patch.
>
> Please add these details to the commit log. Just writing what the patch
> is doing isn't very helpful.
>

Ok, will do.

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