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Date:   Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:56:00 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] irqchip: sifive-plic: Differentiate between PLIC
 handler and context
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 04:48:20PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> We explicitly differentiate between PLIC handler and context because
> PLIC context is for given mode of HART whereas PLIC handler is per-CPU
> software construct meant for handling interrupts from a particular
> PLIC context.
> 
> To achieve this differentiation, we rename "nr_handlers" to "nr_contexts"
> and "nr_mapped" to "nr_handlers" in plic_init().

Not sure what this differenciates that we previously didn't.  As far
as I can tell it just is a slight naming cleanup.