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From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To:     Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 4/9] MIPS: Loongson-3: Support 4 packages in CPU Hwmon
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:14:43AM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:

(Fixing the Steven.Hill@imgtec.com address on cc, this email address is
stale since a long time.  Steven is now Steven.Hill@cavium.com.

> Loongson-3 machines may have as many as 4 physical packages.

Any reason why not dynamically allocating all structures, static allocations
just won't scale to many packages nor are they very maintenance friendly.

  Ralf