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Re: [PATCH 1/2] mailbox: mailbox-test: add support for fasync/poll

From Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/2] mailbox: mailbox-test: add support for fasync/poll
Date 2016-12-08 20:00 +0100
Message-ID <sMc5b-1bo-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <sIRJD-1es-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization ARM

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On 29/11/16 14:37, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> Currently the read operation on the message debug file returns error if
> there's no data ready to be read. It expects the userspace to retry if
> it fails. Since the mailbox response could be asynchronous, it would be
> good to add support to block the read until the data is available.
> 
> We can also implement poll file operations so that the userspace can
> wait to become ready to perform any I/O.
> 
> This patch implements the poll and fasync file operation callback for
> the test mailbox device.
> 
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> Cc: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>

Gentle Ping!

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep

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[PATCH 1/2] mailbox: mailbox-test: add support for fasync/poll Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> - 2016-11-29 15:40 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] mailbox: mailbox-test: allow reserved areas in SRAM Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> - 2016-11-29 15:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] mailbox: mailbox-test: add support for fasync/poll Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> - 2016-12-08 20:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] mailbox: mailbox-test: add support for fasync/poll Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-10 16:30 +0100

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