@@ -22,17 +22,11 @@ Required property:
- mboxes: List of phandle and mailbox channel specifiers.
Optional property:
-- mbox-names: List of identifier strings for each mailbox channel
- required by the client. The use of this property
- is discouraged in favor of using index in list of
- 'mboxes' while requesting a mailbox. Instead the
- platforms may define channel indices, in DT headers,
- to something legible.
+- mbox-names: List of identifier strings for each mailbox channel.
Example:
pwr_cntrl: power {
...
mbox-names = "pwr-ctrl", "rpc";
- mboxes = <&mailbox 0
- &mailbox 1>;
+ mboxes = <&mailbox 0 &mailbox 1>;
};
A new API call has been introduced which allows channels to be requested by name. This new call uses the 'mbox-names' property, so users need no further discouragement from supplying it. Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)