[PATCH 7/7] mailbox/omap: move the OMAP mailbox framework to drivers

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Jun 9 00:01:35 EDT 2013


On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:58:12PM -0500, Suman Anna wrote:
> The mailbox hardware (in OMAP) uses a queued mailbox interrupt
> mechanism that provides a communication channel between processors
> through a set of registers and their associated interrupt signals
> by sending and receiving messages.
> 
> The OMAP mailbox framework/driver code is moved to be under
> drivers/mailbox, in preparation for adapting to a common mailbox
> driver framework. This allows the build for OMAP mailbox to be
> enabled (it was disabled during the multi-platform support).
> 
> As part of the migration from plat and mach code:
> - Kconfig symbols have been renamed to build OMAP1 or OMAP2+ drivers.
> - mailbox.h under plat-omap/plat/include has been split into a public
>   and private header files. The public header has only the API related
>   functions and types.
> - The module name mailbox.ko from plat-omap is changed to
>   omap-mailbox.ko
> - The module name mailbox_mach.ko from mach-omapX is changed as
>     mailbox_omap1.ko for OMAP1
>     mailbox_omap2.ko for OMAP2+
> 
> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
> Signed-off-by: Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez at copitl.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suman Anna <s-anna at ti.com>

Staging part:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>



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