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@@ -19,15 +19,20 @@ Example:
* Mailbox Client
Required property:
-- mbox: List of phandle and mailbox channel specifier.
+- mboxes: List of phandle and mailbox channel specifiers.
+Optional property:
- mbox-names: List of identifier strings for each mailbox channel
- required by the client.
+ required by the client. The use of this property
+ is discouraged in favor of using index in list of
+ 'mboxes' while requesting a mailbox. Instead the
+ platforms may define channel indices, in DT headers,
+ to something legible.
Example:
pwr_cntrl: power {
...
mbox-names = "pwr-ctrl", "rpc";
- mbox = <&mailbox 0
+ mboxes = <&mailbox 0
&mailbox 1>;
};