On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > > .../devicetree/bindings/mailbox/sti-mailbox.txt | 51
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100644
> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/sti-mailbox.txt
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/sti-mailbox.txt
> > > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/sti-mailbox.txt
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000..b61eec9
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/sti-mailbox.txt
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
> > > +ST Microelectronics Mailbox Driver
> > > +
> > > +Each ST Mailbox IP currently consists of 4 instances of 32 channels.
> > > Messages
> > > +are passed between Application and Remote processors using shared memory.
> > > +
> > > +Controller
> > > +----------
> > > +
> > > +Required properties:
> > > +- compatible : Should be "st,stih407-mailbox"
> > > +- reg : Offset and length of the device's register set
> > > +- mbox-name : Name of the mailbox
> >
> > All other mailbox drivers use "mbox-names". Oops, it's in v4.9-rc1...
> >
> > Can we still fix that?
>
> So long as all the fixes; changes to the driver and DT are merged in a
> single kernel release, we can change it.
Scrap that, change of plan. Actually current code is correct.
mbox-name does not have the same functionality as mbox-names.
mbox-names is a client-side property used to request channels, where
as mbox-name is used to provide a better user-readable name other than
mailbox{0..x}.
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