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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate
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On (09/20/17 12:20), Helge Deller wrote:
[..]
> > I've not looked at the specifics case...
> > 
> > Another option is using a struct with a single member and
> > passing it by value.
> 
> Actually, we do already have correct structs which could be referenced:
> parisc: struct Elf64_Fdesc
> ia64:	struct fdesc
> ppc64:	struct ppc64_opd_entry
> 
> One could "#define platform_opd_entry" to each of those depending on the platform and use it.
> It might be misleading though, because the pointer which is handed over to
> dereference_function_descriptor() can be such a pointer but isn't necessary.
> I'll leave it up to Sergey to decide.

Hello,

I think I'll keep 'unsigned long' for now.

	-ss