[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: document the FSL MPIC message register binding

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Apr 20 04:33:36 EST 2011


On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:26:26 -0500
Meador Inge <meador_inge at mentor.com> wrote:

> On 04/19/2011 12:52 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:59:34 -0500
> > Meador Inge <meador_inge at mentor.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>  Aliases are of the form 'msgr-block<n>',
> >> +    where <n> is an integer specifying the block's number.  Numbers shall start
> >> +    at 0.
> > 
> > The hw docs refer to "group A" and "group B", not "block 0" and "block 1".
> > 
> > Plus, I'd put "mpic-" in the alias name.
> 
> Are you suggesting that the alias should be called: 'mpic-groupA',
> 'mpic-groupB', 'mpic-groupC', etc... ?

I was thinking something like "mpic-msgr-group-a", "mpic-msgr-group-b" --
though if you want to use numbers instead to more easily map to potential
APIs, that's OK.

-Scott



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