[PATCH v3 2/5] OMAP: mailbox: fix rx interrupt disable in omap4

Felipe Balbi balbi at ti.com
Mon Nov 22 05:08:15 EST 2010


On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:50:02PM +0100, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
>Most of the time, we do not want to use the IP revision because it is 
>un-accurate and does not reflect the change we'd like to track.
>For example some time a minor change in the RTL that will not impact 
>the SW at all might trigger a change in the IP revision, whereas on 
>the other hand a major bug fix that will impact the SW is not capture 
>in the IP revision... yeah, that's bad, but this can happen.
>
>That's why we are relying on a rev field in the hwmod.

But then, what's inside this rev field ? Is it some internal revision of
hwmod or do you read from the hw ?

-- 
balbi



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