[PATCH v1 2/9] mailbox: Add NVIDIA Tegra XUSB mailbox driver

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Jun 25 15:02:08 PDT 2014


On 06/18/2014 12:16 AM, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
> The Tegra XHCI controller communicates requests to the host through
> a mailbox interface.  Host drivers which can handle these requests,
> such as the Tegra XUSB pad controller driver and upcoming Tegra XHCI
> host controller driver, can send messages and register to be notified
> of incoming messages.

> diff --git a/include/linux/tegra-xusb-mbox.h b/include/linux/tegra-xusb-mbox.h

> +extern int tegra_xusb_mbox_register_notifier(struct tegra_xusb_mbox *mbox,
> +					     struct notifier_block *nb);
> +extern void tegra_xusb_mbox_unregister_notifier(struct tegra_xusb_mbox *mbox,
> +						struct notifier_block *nb);
> +extern int tegra_xusb_mbox_send(struct tegra_xusb_mbox *mbox,
> +				enum tegra_xusb_mbox_cmd cmd, u32 data);
> +extern struct tegra_xusb_mbox *
> +tegra_xusb_mbox_lookup_by_phandle(struct device_node *np, const char *prop);

This seems to use a custom API. I've seen mention of a mailbox
subsystem, and I assume that has a standardized API. Should this driver
implement that instead?



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