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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 15/18] docs: irq/concepts: Minor improvements
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:54:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250115085409.1629787-16-jirislaby@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250115085409.1629787-1-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
-- 
2.48.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-01-15  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-15  8:53 [PATCH 00/18] irqdomain: couple cleanups and documentation Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:53 ` [PATCH 01/18] irqdomain.h: Remove extern from function declarations Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-03-10  9:06   ` [tip: irq/core] irqdomain: " tip-bot2 for Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:53 ` [PATCH 02/18] irqdomain: Rename irq_set_default_host() to irq_set_default_domain() Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:53 ` [PATCH 03/18] irqdomain: Rename irq_get_default_host() to irq_get_default_domain() Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:53 ` [PATCH 04/18] irqdomain.h: Stop using 'host' for domain Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:53 ` [PATCH 05/18] irqdomain: Drop of_node_to_fwnode() Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:53 ` [PATCH 06/18] irqdomain: Make a couple of functions an inline Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:53 ` [PATCH 07/18] irqdomain: Make irq_domain_instantiate() returned domains an initializer Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:53 ` [PATCH 08/18] irqdomain: Make struct irq_domain_info variables const Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:53 ` [PATCH 09/18] irqdomain: Rename _add functions to _add_*_of_node Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-02-06 16:22   ` tglx
2025-02-20  8:17     ` Jiri Slaby
2025-02-20 14:23       ` Thomas Gleixner
2025-01-15  8:53 ` [PATCH 10/18] irqdomain: Rename _create functions to _add_*_fwnode Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:54 ` [PATCH 11/18] irqdomain: Rename _instantiate functions to _add Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:54 ` [PATCH 12/18] irqdomain: Switch away from irq_linear_revmap() and drop it Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:54 ` [PATCH 13/18] irqdomain.h: Improve kernel-docs of functions Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:54 ` [PATCH 14/18] docs: irq/concepts: Add commas and reflow Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:54 ` Jiri Slaby (SUSE) [this message]
2025-01-15  8:54 ` [PATCH 16/18] docs: irq-domain.rst: Simple improvements Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:54 ` [PATCH 17/18] docs: irqdomain: Update Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2025-01-15  8:54 ` [PATCH 18/18] irqdomain.c: Fix kernel-doc and add it to Documentation Jiri Slaby (SUSE)

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