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Date:   Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:48:41 +0800
From:   Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
To:     Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Mylène Josserand <mylene.josserand@...tlin.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        quentin.schulz@...tlin.com, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 11/13] ARM: sun9i: smp: Add is_sun9i field

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 08:18:34AM +0200, Mylène Josserand wrote:
>> To prepare the support of sun8i-a83t, add a field in the smp_data
>> structure to enable the case of sun9i.
>>
>> Start to handle the differences between sun9i-a80 and sun8i-a83t
>> by using this variable.
>>
>> Add an index to retrieve which structures we are using.
>
> This should have been in a separate commit, but maybe we can store a
> pointer to the array cell we're using instead of always using the
> index?

Using a pointer would also avoid some of the code movement from the
previous patch.

ChenYu