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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org" <linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org>,
	linux acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Subject: Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v3 1/3] Mailbox: Add support for PCC mailbox and channels
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 00:03:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140902230331.GF29327@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ5Y-eakQDGsC8Y=oDsbrm2QAPWZPpAe3P8fMFK+5vH1+hR5xw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 04:15:05PM -0400, Ashwin Chaugule wrote:

> > Using platform_data would no be helpful, because there is no platform
> > code to fill that out on ACPI based systems.

> Right. So the question is how do we work around the "mbox->dev" and
> "client->dev" expectations in the Mailbox framework for PCC, given
> that these tables aren't backed by "struct devices" ?

As previously suggested just looking things up in the context of a
device created to represent the PCC controller seems fine; clients know
they're using PCC so can just call a PCC specific API which hides the
mechanics from them (for example, using a global variable to store the
device).

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-02 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-26 19:35 [PATCH v3 0/3] PCC: Platform Communication Channel Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-26 19:35 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] Mailbox: Add support for PCC mailbox and channels Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-27 10:27   ` Mark Brown
2014-08-27 13:07     ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-27 19:09       ` Mark Brown
2014-08-27 21:49         ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-28 10:10           ` Mark Brown
2014-08-28 12:31             ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-28  8:39         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-08-28 10:15           ` Mark Brown
2014-08-28 20:34             ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-09-02 18:16               ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-09-02 19:22                 ` [Linaro-acpi] " Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-02 20:15                   ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-09-02 23:03                     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-09-03 15:23                       ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-09-03 15:27                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-03 15:36                         ` Mark Brown
2014-09-03 15:41                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-03 15:51                             ` Mark Brown
2014-09-03 11:23                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-03 14:49                       ` Mark Brown
2014-09-03 14:50                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-08-28 12:21           ` Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-26 19:35 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Add support for Platform Communication Channel Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-27 10:29   ` Mark Brown
2014-08-26 19:35 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] PCC-test: Test driver to trigger PCC commands Ashwin Chaugule
2014-08-27 10:30   ` Mark Brown
2014-08-27 11:53     ` Ashwin Chaugule

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