docs: move mailbox.txt to driver-api and rename it

This file is already at the ReST format. Move it to
driver-api and rename it.

Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/03e40c31b86c1f4fd3597bf4bfb8346901286bab.1592918949.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
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@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ available subsections can be seen below.
    scsi
    libata
    target
+   mailbox
    mtdnand
    miscellaneous
    mei/index
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/mailbox.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/mailbox.rst
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+============================
+The Common Mailbox Framework
+============================
+
+: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
+client (especially) and controller drivers are likely going to be
+very platform specific because the remote firmware is likely to be
+proprietary and implement non-standard protocol. So even if two
+platforms employ, say, PL320 controller, the client drivers can't
+be shared across them. Even the PL320 driver might need to accommodate
+some platform specific quirks. So the API is meant mainly to avoid
+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.
+
+
+
+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.
+The controller driver might know a message has been consumed
+by the remote by getting an IRQ or polling some hardware flag
+or it can never know (the client knows by way of the protocol).
+The method in order of preference is IRQ -> Poll -> None, which
+the controller driver should set via 'txdone_irq' or 'txdone_poll'
+or neither.
+
+
+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;
+		struct mbox_chan *mbox;
+		struct completion c;
+		bool async;
+		/* ... */
+	};
+
+	/*
+	* This is the handler for data received from remote. The behaviour is purely
+	* dependent upon the protocol. This is just an example.
+	*/
+	static void message_from_remote(struct mbox_client *cl, void *mssg)
+	{
+		struct demo_client *dc = container_of(cl, struct demo_client, cl);
+		if (dc->async) {
+			if (is_an_ack(mssg)) {
+				/* An ACK to our last sample sent */
+				return; /* Or do something else here */
+			} else { /* A new message from remote */
+				queue_req(mssg);
+			}
+		} else {
+			/* Remote f/w sends only ACK packets on this channel */
+			return;
+		}
+	}
+
+	static void sample_sent(struct mbox_client *cl, void *mssg, int r)
+	{
+		struct demo_client *dc = container_of(cl, struct demo_client, cl);
+		complete(&dc->c);
+	}
+
+	static void client_demo(struct platform_device *pdev)
+	{
+		struct demo_client *dc_sync, *dc_async;
+		/* The controller already knows async_pkt and sync_pkt */
+		struct async_pkt ap;
+		struct sync_pkt sp;
+
+		dc_sync = kzalloc(sizeof(*dc_sync), GFP_KERNEL);
+		dc_async = kzalloc(sizeof(*dc_async), GFP_KERNEL);
+
+		/* Populate non-blocking mode client */
+		dc_async->cl.dev = &pdev->dev;
+		dc_async->cl.rx_callback = message_from_remote;
+		dc_async->cl.tx_done = sample_sent;
+		dc_async->cl.tx_block = false;
+		dc_async->cl.tx_tout = 0; /* doesn't matter here */
+		dc_async->cl.knows_txdone = false; /* depending upon protocol */
+		dc_async->async = true;
+		init_completion(&dc_async->c);
+
+		/* Populate blocking mode client */
+		dc_sync->cl.dev = &pdev->dev;
+		dc_sync->cl.rx_callback = message_from_remote;
+		dc_sync->cl.tx_done = NULL; /* operate in blocking mode */
+		dc_sync->cl.tx_block = true;
+		dc_sync->cl.tx_tout = 500; /* by half a second */
+		dc_sync->cl.knows_txdone = false; /* depending upon protocol */
+		dc_sync->async = false;
+
+		/* ASync mailbox is listed second in 'mboxes' property */
+		dc_async->mbox = mbox_request_channel(&dc_async->cl, 1);
+		/* Populate data packet */
+		/* ap.xxx = 123; etc */
+		/* Send async message to remote */
+		mbox_send_message(dc_async->mbox, &ap);
+
+		/* Sync mailbox is listed first in 'mboxes' property */
+		dc_sync->mbox = mbox_request_channel(&dc_sync->cl, 0);
+		/* Populate data packet */
+		/* sp.abc = 123; etc */
+		/* Send message to remote in blocking mode */
+		mbox_send_message(dc_sync->mbox, &sp);
+		/* At this point 'sp' has been sent */
+
+		/* Now wait for async chan to be done */
+		wait_for_completion(&dc_async->c);
+	}