Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: zena: Add support for Zena CSS

[Andre Przywara]

On 2/5/26 12:08, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 12:11:57PM +0000, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> > All of this madness was the best way I could find to address the problem
> > of supporting such new unidirectional mailboxes in the SCMI while NOT
> > breaking backward compatibility in the absence of mandatory naming from
> > the start.
>
> You can attribute this to my expecting an overly ideal scenario with
> bidirectional mailbox channels across all platforms using SCMI. At the time, I
> did not anticipate the range of configurations that rely on unidirectional
> channels.

Would it make sense then to add mbox-names parsing to the code, to 
accommodate new users? There is precedence in some drivers for 
introducing xyz-names for clearer and unambiguous resolution, while 
still falling back to some legacy, fixed associations in case the names 
property doesn't exist.

Cheers,
Andre