Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] dt-bindings: mailbox: imx-mu: add generic MU channel support

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On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 2:28 PM, A.s. Dong <aisheng.dong@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jassi,
>
>> > +               The doorbell channels should be used with shared memory and
>> protocol
>> > +               level acknowledgment if needed.
>> > +
>> I would avoid this. People might get notions that they have to use shmem
>> with doorbell -- a trivial protocol might mean doing some fixed action (like
>> reset) whenever the doorbell rings.
>>
>
> That's right.
> i.MX8 using the general purpose interrupt for peripherals. No shmem needed.
> e.g. RTC, Watchdog and ON/OFF interrupt.
>
> BTW, this means the peripheral will use mailbox doorbell channels to handle
> Interrupts. Is there such user case in kernel we can refer to?
>
I don't find any publicly in kernel.
It should be simple though. Acquire the RX channel, and populate the
rx_callback() with the "interrupt" handler.
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