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author | Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> | 2011-07-14 13:53:54 -0400 |
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committer | Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> | 2011-08-02 17:34:30 -0400 |
commit | 891f692533c36a17f00d25d24e4ac44ef38c9e5c (patch) | |
tree | bee5a52ef4586f5ea216c7fd5ba56abd991b5b13 /Documentation | |
parent | 55f9c40ff632d03c527d6a6ceddcda0a224587a6 (diff) |
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use the subjunctive, and change `can' to `may'
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt index 3f5e0b09bed5..43ffff1b5618 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt | |||
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ arrived in memory (this becomes more likely with devices behind PCI-PCI | |||
45 | bridges). In order to ensure that all the data has arrived in memory, | 45 | bridges). In order to ensure that all the data has arrived in memory, |
46 | the interrupt handler must read a register on the device which raised | 46 | the interrupt handler must read a register on the device which raised |
47 | the interrupt. PCI transaction ordering rules require that all the data | 47 | the interrupt. PCI transaction ordering rules require that all the data |
48 | arrives in memory before the value can be returned from the register. | 48 | arrive in memory before the value may be returned from the register. |
49 | Using MSIs avoids this problem as the interrupt-generating write cannot | 49 | Using MSIs avoids this problem as the interrupt-generating write cannot |
50 | pass the data writes, so by the time the interrupt is raised, the driver | 50 | pass the data writes, so by the time the interrupt is raised, the driver |
51 | knows that all the data has arrived in memory. | 51 | knows that all the data has arrived in memory. |