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Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:01:07 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     patrice.chotard@...com, jassisinghbrar@...il.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...inux.com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailbox: sti: Fix mbox-names copy and paste error

On Wed, 04 Jan 2017, Rob Herring wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 12:05:27PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > Due to an over-sight, mbox-names has become mbox-name in some instances.
> > 
> > Let's put it right.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/sti-mailbox.txt | 4 ++--
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi                     | 8 ++++----
> >  drivers/mailbox/mailbox-sti.c                             | 2 +-
> >  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/sti-mailbox.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/sti-mailbox.txt
> > index 351f612..648d176 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/sti-mailbox.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/sti-mailbox.txt
> > @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Controller
> >  Required properties:
> >  - compatible		: Should be "st,stih407-mailbox"
> >  - reg			: Offset and length of the device's register set
> > -- mbox-name		: Name of the mailbox
> > +- mbox-names		: Name of the mailbox
> 
> It's worse than this. mbox-names is for the mailbox client side.

Ah yes, of course.  False alarm.

Let's just leave it as it is. ;)

I'll reply to the reporter directly.

> This should just be dropped. Plus, *-names is pointless when there
> is only 1 element.

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Lee Jones
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