> Each sequence has to be protected by some lock and this lock needs to be > placed in MFD. Yes the routines for MB access can be for example in DPLL > driver but still the locks have to be inside MFD. So they have to be > exposed to sub-devices.
The point of using MFD was gpio? Does the gpio driver need access to the mailboxes? Does any other sub driver other than DPLL need to access mailboxes? The mutex needs to be shared, but that could be in the common data structure. Andrew