On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 22:31 +0530, Jassi Brar wrote:
> Introduce common framework for client/protocol drivers and
> controller drivers of Inter-Processor-Communication (IPC).
>
> Client driver developers should have a look at
> include/linux/mailbox_client.h to understand the part of
> the API exposed to client drivers.
> Similarly controller driver developers should have a look
> at include/linux/mailbox_controller.h
>
> Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.si...@linaro.org>
> +/**
> + * mbox_chan_received_data - A way for controller driver to push data
> + * received from remote to the upper layer.
> + * @chan: Pointer to the mailbox channel on which RX happened.
> + * @data: Client specific message typecasted as void *
It's "mssg", not "data".
> +static struct mbox_chan *
> +of_mbox_index_xlate(struct mbox_controller *mbox,
> + const struct of_phandle_args *sp)
The line break here is inconsistent with how the rest of the file is
formatted.
> +/**
> + * struct mbox_controller - Controller of a class of communication chans
> + * @dev: Device backing this controller
> + * @controller_name: Literal name of the controller.
> + * @ops: Operators that work on each communication chan
> + * @chans: Null terminated array of chans.
This needs to be updated for current API. It's neither not NULL
terminated nor and array and num_chans documentation is missing.
> + * @txdone_irq: Indicates if the controller can report to API
> when
> + * the last transmitted data was read by the remote.
> + * Eg, if it has some TX ACK irq.
> + * @txdone_poll: If the controller can read but not report the TX
> + * done. Ex, some register shows the TX status but
> + * no interrupt rises. Ignored if 'txdone_irq' is set.
> + * @txpoll_period: If 'txdone_poll' is in effect, the API polls for
> + * last TX's status after these many millisecs
> + */
> +struct mbox_controller {
> + struct device *dev;
> + struct mbox_chan_ops *ops;
> + struct mbox_chan *chans;
> + int num_chans;
> + bool txdone_irq;
> + bool txdone_poll;
> + unsigned txpoll_period;
> + struct mbox_chan *(*of_xlate)(struct mbox_controller *mbox,
> + const struct of_phandle_args *sp);
> + /*
> + * If the controller supports only TXDONE_BY_POLL,
> + * this timer polls all the links for txdone.
> + */
> + struct timer_list poll;
> + unsigned period;
> + /* Hook to add to the global controller list */
> + struct list_head node;
> +};
Thank you,
Lubo
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