| Date | Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:52:07 +0100 | From | Marc Zyngier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/15] irqchip/gic: Pass GIC pointer to save/restore functions |
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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. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny.
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