[PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP2+: move mailbox.h out of plat-omap headers

[Omar Ramirez Luna]

Tony,

On 29 October 2012 12:52, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/include/linux/platform_data/omap_mailbox.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
>
> This file should only contain pure platform data needed
> by the core omap code to pass to the mailbox driver.

Ok, looking at it closely, this header file is related to the API
itself, there is nothing that could be actually considered as pure
platform data, the structures are related with the mailbox framework
and even if I split this file into two, the additional header would
end up including the "platform_data" header unless I move
save/restore_ctx functions and then export them as symbols for the
API.

So, it might be better for the entire file to sit in
linux/include/mailbox/ then.

> The mailbox API header should be somewhere else,
> like include/linux/mailbox/mailbox-omap.h or similar.

Ok.

> But shouldn't this all now be handled by using the
> remoteproc framework?

Remoteproc doesn't handle the mailbox hardware directly, it still
relies in the mailbox framework for the low level communications.
E.g.: Proc1 has a message (virtqueue msg) queued to Proc2, uses
mailbox msg to generate an interrupt to Proc2, Proc2 queries the
message (virtqueue) based on the mailbox message received.

Regards,

Omar