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From: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: maz@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 54/57] docs: irq/concepts: Minor improvements
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:29:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250319092951.37667-55-jirislaby@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250319092951.37667-1-jirislaby@kernel.org>

Just note in the docs:
1) A PCI as an example for shared interrupts,
2) a sparse tree can be used for interrupts too, and
3) two i8259s have 8 pins.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
---
 Documentation/core-api/irq/concepts.rst | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/irq/concepts.rst b/Documentation/core-api/irq/concepts.rst
index f166006a81f6..7c4564f3cbdf 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/irq/concepts.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/irq/concepts.rst
@@ -4,18 +4,20 @@ What is an IRQ?
 
 An IRQ is an interrupt request from a device. Currently, they can come
 in over a pin, or over a packet. Several devices may be connected to
-the same pin thus sharing an IRQ.
+the same pin thus sharing an IRQ. Such as on legacy PCI bus: All devices
+typically share 4 lanes/pins. Note that each device can request an
+interrupt on each of the lanes.
 
 An IRQ number is a kernel identifier used to talk about a hardware
 interrupt source. Typically, this is an index into the global irq_desc
-array, but except for what linux/interrupt.h implements, the details
-are architecture specific.
+array or sparse_irqs tree. But except for what linux/interrupt.h
+implements, the details are architecture specific.
 
 An IRQ number is an enumeration of the possible interrupt sources on a
 machine. Typically, what is enumerated is the number of input pins on
 all of the interrupt controllers in the system. In the case of ISA,
-what is enumerated are the 16 input pins on the two i8259 interrupt
-controllers.
+what is enumerated are the 8 input pins on each of the two i8259
+interrupt controllers.
 
 Architectures can assign additional meaning to the IRQ numbers, and
 are encouraged to in the case where there is any manual configuration
-- 
2.49.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-03-19  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-19  9:28 [PATCH v2 00/57] irqdomain: Cleanups and Documentation Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-03-19  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 39/57] irqdomain: ppc: Switch irq_domain_add_nomap() to use fwnode Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-03-19  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 40/57] irqdomain: Drop irq_domain_add_*() functions Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-03-19  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 49/57] irqdomain: Drop irq_linear_revmap() Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-03-19  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 52/57] irqdomain.h: Improve kernel-docs of functions Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-03-19  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 53/57] docs: irq/concepts: Add commas and reflow Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-03-19  9:29 ` Jiri Slaby (SUSE) [this message]
2025-03-19  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 55/57] docs: irq-domain.rst: Simple improvements Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-03-19 17:54   ` Randy Dunlap
2025-03-20  6:26     ` Jiri Slaby
2025-03-19  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 56/57] docs: irqdomain: Update Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-03-19 18:01   ` Randy Dunlap
2025-03-20  6:32     ` Jiri Slaby
2025-03-19  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 57/57] irqdomain.c: Fix kernel-doc and add it to Documentation Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-03-19 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 00/57] irqdomain: Cleanups and Documentation Andy Shevchenko
2025-03-19 10:32   ` Jiri Slaby
2025-03-20 15:18 ` (subset) " Mark Brown
2025-03-25  7:03 ` Christophe Leroy
2025-05-06 13:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2025-05-12  9:55   ` Jiri Slaby

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