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Re: [PATCH 12/15] irqchip/gic: Pass GIC pointer to save/restore functions

Started byMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
First post2016-04-09 14:00 +0200
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  Re: [PATCH 12/15] irqchip/gic: Pass GIC pointer to save/restore  functions Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2016-04-09 14:00 +0200

#1374617 — Re: [PATCH 12/15] irqchip/gic: Pass GIC pointer to save/restore functions

FromMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Date2016-04-09 14:00 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH 12/15] irqchip/gic: Pass GIC pointer to save/restore functions
Message-ID<rlZIu-4lP-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:19:16 +0000
Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> wrote:

> Instead of passing the GIC index to the save/restore functions pass a
> pointer to the GIC chip data. This will allow these save/restore
> functions to be re-used by a platform driver where the GIC chip data
> structure is allocated dynamically and so there is no applicable index
> for identifying the GIC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>

Eventually, I'd like to move to a situation where we don't statically
allocate the chip data anymore, and kill CONFIG_ARM_GIC_MAX_NR
altogether. This is obviously a step in the right direction.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

	M.
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