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Subject: Re: [PATCH V16 1/8] arm64/sysreg: Add BRBE registers and fields
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To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
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On 2/21/24 19:37, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 02:05:24PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 01:59:03PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 01:52:38PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> 
>>> It's a good point about the sorting, though the file is currently mostly
>>> sorted by encoding rather than alphanumerically (similarly to how
>>> sysreg.h was done).
> 
>> Sure, we're inconsistent. I'd just prefer that there's *some* local ordering
>> here, as the patch is neither ordered as above nor by encoding:
> 
> I agree, I'm just saying that if we're going to fix the ordering it'd
> probably be better to go along with what the rest of the file is doing.

Sure, will change the registers order as has been suggested earlier i.e
alphanumerically instead. Because ordering registers with encoding will
push BRBCR_EL2/12 after all other BRBE registers, including BRBIDR0_EL1.

After the change

BRBCR_EL1
BRBCR_EL12
BRBCR_EL2