[PATCHv5 2/2] mailbox: Adding driver for Xilinx LogiCORE IP mailbox.

[pebolle@tiscali.nl (Paul Bolle)]

On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 08:55 +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> On 06/24/2015 10:36 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 11:00 -0700, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> > > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:xilinx-mailbox");
> > 
> > So I think this MODULE_ALIAS() is only useful if, in short, there's 
> > a corresponding platform_device created. Ie, a platform_device with 
> > a name "xilinx-mailbox" that will fire of a "MODALIAS=platform:xili
> > nx-mailbox" when it's created.
> > 
> > I couldn't spot such a platform_device. Provided git grep didn't 
> > let me down here: what breaks if this line is dropped?
> 
> IRC you don't need to have this platform_device in the kernel 
> present. Only one thing which should be check is that this driver can 
> be used as platform device driver.
> 
> The only one problematic part is devm_clk_get() and this should be
> checked if you can use this as platform driver. From the first look 
> it looks like that this will break it.
> 
> Anyway if Moritz is able to use this a platform driver he can keep 
> this line there. If not, it should be removed.

But, assuming this works as a platform driver, where does the "xilinx
-mailbox" platform device originate?


Paul Bolle

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