Re: [Linaro-acpi] [PATCH v3 1/3] Mailbox: Add support for PCC mailbox and channels

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On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 04:15:05PM -0400, Ashwin Chaugule wrote:

> > Using platform_data would no be helpful, because there is no platform
> > code to fill that out on ACPI based systems.

> Right. So the question is how do we work around the "mbox->dev" and
> "client->dev" expectations in the Mailbox framework for PCC, given
> that these tables aren't backed by "struct devices" ?

As previously suggested just looking things up in the context of a
device created to represent the PCC controller seems fine; clients know
they're using PCC so can just call a PCC specific API which hides the
mechanics from them (for example, using a global variable to store the
device).

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