[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2 V4] misc: add "call" uclass op

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Aug 8 21:47:19 CEST 2016


+Tom

Hi Stephen,

On 8 August 2016 at 10:41, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 08/08/2016 10:38 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> On 8 August 2016 at 09:41, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>>
>>> The call op requests that the callee pass a message to the underlying HW
>>> or device, wait for a response, and then pass back the response error
>>> code
>>> and message to the callee. It is useful for drivers that represent some
>>> kind of messaging or IPC channel to a remote device.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>> ---
>>> v4: Adjust misc_call() to return the response msg size on success.
>>> v3: New patch.
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/misc/misc-uclass.c | 11 +++++++++++
>>>  include/misc.h             | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  2 files changed, 46 insertions(+)
>>
>>
>> Are you planning for the Tegra186 stuff to go into the upcoming release?
>
>
> I'd like it to if at all possible; it's all pretty much Tegra-specific
> drivers so shouldn't cause any fallout for other platforms. The only
> exception is the fdt_translate_address() changes, which are a dependency,
> which will be built into other platforms, but there's a simple Boolean
> parameter that controls the new behaviour, so it should be pretty safe.

OK, sounds reasonable to me. I'll pick these up later in the week and
send a pull request. Can you bring any other dependencies in via
Tegra?

Regards,
Simon


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