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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/PCI')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt index 867ed035110..faf37f9d29d 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ switched into MSI mode. The device driver must decide what action to take if pci_enable_msi_block() returns a value less than the number requested. -Some devices can make use of fewer interrupts than the maximum they -request; in this case the driver should call pci_enable_msi_block() +For instance, the driver could still make use of fewer interrupts; +in this case the driver should call pci_enable_msi_block() again. Note that it is not guaranteed to succeed, even when the 'count' has been reduced to the value returned from a previous call to pci_enable_msi_block(). This is because there are multiple constraints |