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Date:   Wed, 18 Sep 2019 09:22:54 -0500
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:58 AM Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> wrote:
>

> > > Also there is mbox_chan_txdone() with which a controller driver can signal TX completion explicitly.
> > >
> > No. Controller can use that only if it has specified txdone_irq, which
> > is not the case here.
>
> I see. So does the framework handle the case where both txdone_poll and txdone_irq are false?
>
Of course. If there is no IRQ or POLL mechanism for controller to
detect tx-done, the only way left is for client driver to know by some
'ack' response (if any). The client should call mbox_client_txdone()

Thanks