From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750927AbdIEGZL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2017 02:25:11 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:44743 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750738AbdIEGZJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2017 02:25:09 -0400 X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: YZ1SMKo1pFaOHZpYvUICv/EiKOyiRFxK1v1N8SCv6jY1 1504592708 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 08:25:10 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Cyril Bur Cc: Jassi Brar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org, Joel Stanley Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/mailbox: Add Aspeed mailbox driver Message-ID: <20170905062510.GA16418@kroah.com> References: <20170207233623.18737-1-cyrilbur@gmail.com> <1504509469.4080.6.camel@gmail.com> <1504568239.7626.1.camel@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1504568239.7626.1.camel@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.0 (2017-09-02) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 09:37:19AM +1000, Cyril Bur wrote: > On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 20:13 +0530, Jassi Brar wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Cyril Bur wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I haven't heard anything about this driver. I'm trying to interpret if > > > the silence is because there is something fundamentally wrong with the > > > driver or is it because it doesn't use any of the mailbox > > > infrastructure it is being ignored. > > > > > > > Its the latter. > > Great! Thanks for your response, I'll resend it under char/misc. Wait, no, please use the mailbox infrastructure for this, making a one-off char/misc driver isn't ok when there is a framework for you to use. thanks, greg k-h