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irqdomain: document the simple domain first_irq

Message ID 1362042438-13887-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com
State Accepted
Commit 94a63da0ac1a67bfb8b30aec1086523c5031ea5a
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Linus Walleij Feb. 28, 2013, 9:07 a.m. UTC 
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

The first_irq needs to be zero to get a linear domain and that
comes with special semantics. We want to simplify this going
forward but some documentation never hurts.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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 kernel/irq/irqdomain.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c b/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
index 96f3a1d..059a280 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
@@ -143,7 +143,10 @@  static unsigned int irq_domain_legacy_revmap(struct irq_domain *domain,
  * irq_domain_add_simple() - Allocate and register a simple irq_domain.
  * @of_node: pointer to interrupt controller's device tree node.
  * @size: total number of irqs in mapping
- * @first_irq: first number of irq block assigned to the domain
+ * @first_irq: first number of irq block assigned to the domain,
+ *	pass zero to assign irqs on-the-fly. This will result in a
+ *	linear IRQ domain so it is important to use irq_create_mapping()
+ *	for each used IRQ, especially when SPARSE_IRQ is enabled.
  * @ops: map/unmap domain callbacks
  * @host_data: Controller private data pointer
  *