[PATCH 1/3 v5] dt/bindings: Add binding for the BCM2835 mailbox driver

[Eric Anholt]

Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> writes:

> On 04/28/2015 02:44 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk>
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk>
>> Signed-off-by: Craig McGeachie <slapdau at yahoo.com.au>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
>> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
>> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
>> ---
>> 
>> v2: Split into a separate patch for submitting to the devicetree list.
>>     Consistently start node docs with a capital letter. device's
>>     address in the example shouldn't have "0x". Drop machine-specific
>>     interrupt numbers from the docs.  (changes by anholt).
>> 
>> v3: Move the file to just bcm2835-mbox.txt, clean up formatting
>>     (changes by anholt, from review by Lee Jones).
>> 
>> v4: Move file back by consensus from various Broadcom platform
>>     maintainers (changes by anholt, acked by Lee Jones).
>> 
>> v5: Document that the mailbox cell should be 0 in clients, and add an
>>     example of a client (changes by anholt, from review by Jassi).
>
> Some mention of what you changed in the patch might be nice, since it
> was originally authored by someone else, and there's quite a changelog.

I've been taking this changelog stuff out of the patch and putting it
below '---' because when I was submitting this series before, I got
chided for putting it in the patch!

>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/brcm,bcm2835-mbox.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/brcm,bcm2835-mbox.txt
>
>> +- #mbox-cells:	Specifies the number of cells needed to encode a mailbox
>> +		  channel. The value shall be 1.  Clients should supply a value
>> +		  of 0 for the mailbox channel, because there is only one
>> +		  exposed
>
> Can't you use #mbox-cells = <0> if there's no data to provide?

of_mbox_index_xlate looks like it's always dereferencing the first arg.
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