linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 7/8] drivers: introduce rpmsg, a remote-processor messaging bus

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Date:	Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:12:10 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>
Cc:	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	davinci-linux-open-source 
	<davinci-linux-open-source@...ux.davincidsp.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC 7/8] drivers: introduce rpmsg, a remote-processor
 messaging bus

Hi!

> @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
> +What:		/sys/bus/rpmsg/devices/.../name
> +Date:		June 2011
> +KernelVersion:	3.2
> +Contact:	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>
> +Description:
> +		Every rpmsg device is a communication channel with a remote
> +		processor. Channels are identified with a (textual) name,
> +		which is maximum 32 bytes long (defined as RPMSG_NAME_SIZE in
> +		rpmsg.h).
> +
> +		This sysfs entry contains the name of this channel.
> +
> +What:		/sys/bus/rpmsg/devices/.../src
> +Date:		June 2011
> +KernelVersion:	3.2
> +Contact:	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>
> +Description:
> +		Every rpmsg device is a communication channel with a remote
> +		processor. Channels have a local ("source") rpmsg address,
> +		and remote ("destination") rpmsg address. When an entity
> +		starts listening on one end of a channel, it assigns it with
> +		a unique rpmsg address (a 32 bits integer). This way when
> +		inbound messages arrive to this address, the rpmsg core
> +		dispatches them to the listening entity (a kernel driver).
> +
> +		This sysfs entry contains the src (local) rpmsg address
> +		of this channel. If it contains 0xffffffff, then an address
> +		wasn't assigned (can happen if no driver exists for this
> +		channel).

So this is basically networking... right? Why not implement it as
sockets? (accept, connect, read, write)?

									Pavel
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