[PATCH v2t2 00/17] omap: mailbox:

[Hiroshi DOYU]

From: ext Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2t2 00/17] omap: mailbox: 
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 23:44:32 +0200

> From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at nokia.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The main purpose of this patch series is to be able to compile mailbox
> mach platform data as built-in.
> 
> [no changes since the last v2, just rebased on top of the latest
> git://gitorious.org/~doyu/lk/mainline.git for-tony-mailbox]
> 
> Currently, the code is split into three places:
> 1) mach-omapX/devices.c: for platform_device_register() the resources
> 2) mach-omapX/mailbox.c: do platform_driver_register(), fetch the resources,
>    and register logical mailboxes with omap_mbox_register()
> 3) plat-omap/mailbox.c: implement omap_mbox_register() to add the mbox
>    to an internal linked list (static struct omap_mbox *mboxes)
> 
> So, obviously 1) is always built-in, but 2) can't be because of the
> dependency of omap_mbox_register(), which is in 3) and cannot be taken
> out.
> 
> Users of mailbox will load 3) due to omap_mbox_get(), but not 2),
> therefore, no mailboxes will be registered.

How are the above user of mailbox loaded at present?

I think that "bridgedriver.ko" is the user of it and it is also
a platform driver. Someone would have to load it without udev, right?