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Date:   Tue, 23 Apr 2019 23:30:45 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
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        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@wdc.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] RISC-V: Access CSRs using CSR numbers
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 09:37:27AM +0000, Anup Patel wrote:
> We should prefer accessing CSRs using their CSR numbers because:
> 1. It compiles fine with older toolchains.
> 2. We can use latest CSR names in #define macro names of CSR numbers
>    as-per RISC-V spec.
> 3. We can access newly added CSRs even if toolchain does not recognize
>    newly addes CSRs by name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>

Looks fine:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>