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mailbox.txt: standardize document format

Each text file under Documentation follows a different
format. Some doesn't even have titles!

Change its representation to follow the adopted standard,
using ReST markups for it to be parseable by Sphinx:

- Add markups for section titles;
- Use :Author: for authorship;
- Mark literal block as such and ident it.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2017-05-14 21:06:34 -03:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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============================
The Common Mailbox Framework
Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
============================
:Author: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
This document aims to help developers write client and controller
drivers for the API. But before we start, let us note that the
@ -13,12 +16,15 @@ similar copies of code written for each platform. Having said that,
nothing prevents the remote f/w to also be Linux based and use the
same api there. However none of that helps us locally because we only
ever deal at client's protocol level.
Some of the choices made during implementation are the result of this
peculiarity of this "common" framework.
Part 1 - Controller Driver (See include/linux/mailbox_controller.h)
Controller Driver (See include/linux/mailbox_controller.h)
==========================================================
Allocate mbox_controller and the array of mbox_chan.
Populate mbox_chan_ops, except peek_data() all are mandatory.
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or neither.
Part 2 - Client Driver (See include/linux/mailbox_client.h)
Client Driver (See include/linux/mailbox_client.h)
==================================================
The client might want to operate in blocking mode (synchronously
send a message through before returning) or non-blocking/async mode (submit
a message and a callback function to the API and return immediately).
::
struct demo_client {
struct mbox_client cl;