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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 09:24:42AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.luna at linaro.org> [121030 05:20]:
> > 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.
> 
> OK to me.
>  
> > > 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.
> 
> OK.
> 
> Greg, do these patches look OK to you to move to live under
> drivers/mailbox?

Um, I don't know, I wasn't paying attention here, sorry.

greg k-h