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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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22/10/2018 05:49, Joseph, Anoob:
> Hi Fiona,
> 
> I do agree that your solution seems to be a neat way for organizing capabilities. But Akhil & Thomas were against that idea and we had to come up with one array with all capabilities. This would not scale well when we start supporting devices with varying capabilities.
> 
> If your plan is to follow the same approach for asym support, maybe we will also follow suit and submit the required patches.
> 
> @Akhil, Thomas, thoughts?

Generally speaking, macros are bad.

Why cannot you just write functions?
I don't understand your issue.