[PATCH v3 2/5] OMAP: mailbox: fix rx interrupt disable in omap4

Kanigeri, Hari h-kanigeri2 at ti.com
Mon Nov 22 06:46:53 EST 2010


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:50:02PM +0100, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
>>
>> Most of the time, we do not want to use the IP revision because it is
>> un-accurate and does not reflect the change we'd like to track.
>> For example some time a minor change in the RTL that will not impact the
>> SW at all might trigger a change in the IP revision, whereas on the other
>> hand a major bug fix that will impact the SW is not capture in the IP
>> revision... yeah, that's bad, but this can happen.
>>
>> That's why we are relying on a rev field in the hwmod.
>
> But then, what's inside this rev field ? Is it some internal revision of
> hwmod or do you read from the hw ?
>



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