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> From: Jassi Brar [mailto:jassisinghb...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 5:42 PM
> To: Oleksij Rempel <o.rem...@pengutronix.de>
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> 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.rem...@pengutronix.de>
> wrote:
> > From: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.d...@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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