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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt index faf37f9d29dc..1d7047a34862 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ interrupt number and frees the previously allocated message signaled interrupt(s). The interrupt may subsequently be assigned to another device, so drivers should not cache the value of dev->irq. -A device driver must always call free_irq() on the interrupt(s) -for which it has called request_irq() before calling this function. +Before calling this function, a device driver must always call free_irq() +on any interrupt for which it previously called request_irq(). Failure to do so results in a BUG_ON(), leaving the device with MSI enabled and thus leaking its vector. @@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ the previously allocated message signaled interrupts. The interrupts may subsequently be assigned to another device, so drivers should not cache the value of the 'vector' elements over a call to pci_disable_msix(). -A device driver must always call free_irq() on the interrupt(s) -for which it has called request_irq() before calling this function. +Before calling this function, a device driver must always call free_irq() +on any interrupt for which it previously called request_irq(). Failure to do so results in a BUG_ON(), leaving the device with MSI-X enabled and thus leaking its vector. |