Re: [PATCH 5/6] rpmsg: Introduce rpmsg_get_rproc_name

[Chris Lew]

On 12/19/2017 9:52 AM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Mon 18 Dec 14:02 PST 2017, Chris Lew wrote:
>
> > Add support for client's to query the edge name their channel is
> > registered for. This is useful for clients who share the same channel
> > identifier across different remote procs.
>
> I presume this will result in a strcmp in some client driver?
>
> When we're registering the rpmsg device, as part of handling of an
> arriving "open request", we do look for an of_node with matching
> qcom,glink-channels and if one is found we point the dev->of_node of the
> new device to this node.
>
> So I would suggest that you, in your client driver, use this to decide
> which instance you're on; regardless if you're using compatible based
> driver matching.
>
> Does this work for you?
>
> Regards,
> Bjorn

Yea I think this works for us, we can drop this patch.

Just to confirm my understanding, clients can use rpdev->dev.of_node to 
get the parent of_node and from there get the label field? Also to 
ensure of_node is set, client's need to add their channel to the dt with 
qcom,glink-channels.

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