From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com>
Cc: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>,
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/10] mailbox: add MediaTek GPUEB IPI mailbox
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:19:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aNFM0oWk5S38KBRC@finisterre.sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1933660.tdWV9SEqCh@workhorse>
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 02:59:43PM +0200, Nicolas Frattaroli wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 September 2025 07:00:59 Central European Summer Time Jassi Brar wrote:
> > > +#define MBOX_FULL BIT(0) /* i.e. we've received data */
> > > +#define MBOX_CLOGGED BIT(1) /* i.e. the channel is shutdown */
> > This is confusing. CLOGGED usually means malfunction, but it seems you
> > want to call it STOPPED or UNINIT?
> I don't agree that "CLOGGED usually means malfunction". To clog something
> is to impede its flow, which in this case is the correct terminology to
> refer to what's happened to the channel. "UNINIT" is wrong, it's initialised
> properly. "STOPPED" is also wrong, it's not stopped, it still sends, it just
> won't pass it on through.
As a native English speaker I'd say that clogged has heavy overtones of
broken and malfunction, like Jassi says it'd usually describe a fault
condition. Something like "blocked" might be more neutral.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-22 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-17 12:22 [PATCH v3 00/10] MT8196 GPU Frequency/Power Control Support Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-17 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] dt-bindings: gpu: mali-valhall-csf: add mediatek,mt8196-mali variant Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-17 15:02 ` Rob Herring (Arm)
2025-09-18 0:30 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-09-18 14:01 ` Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-19 4:28 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-09-19 10:08 ` Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-17 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] dt-bindings: devfreq: add mt8196-gpufreq binding Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-18 0:31 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-09-17 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] dt-bindings: sram: Add compatible for mediatek,mt8196-gpufreq-sram Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-17 12:44 ` AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
2025-09-17 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] dt-bindings: mailbox: Add MT8196 GPUEB Mailbox Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-17 12:46 ` AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
2025-09-17 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] mailbox: add MediaTek GPUEB IPI mailbox Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-17 12:50 ` AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
2025-09-21 5:00 ` Jassi Brar
2025-09-22 12:59 ` Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-22 13:19 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2025-09-17 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] drm/panthor: call into devfreq for current frequency Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-17 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] drm/panthor: devfreq: make get_dev_status use get_cur_freq Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-17 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] drm/panthor: devfreq: add pluggable devfreq providers Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-17 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] drm/panthor: add no_clocks soc_data member for MT8196 Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-17 12:43 ` AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
2025-09-17 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] drm/panthor: add support for MediaTek MFlexGraphics Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-17 13:28 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] MT8196 GPU Frequency/Power Control Support Ulf Hansson
2025-09-17 15:44 ` Nicolas Frattaroli
2025-09-18 15:26 ` Ulf Hansson
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