lguest: documentation III: Drivers

Documentation: The Drivers

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/lguest_bus.h b/include/linux/lguest_bus.h
index c9b4e05fee49..d27853ddc644 100644
--- a/include/linux/lguest_bus.h
+++ b/include/linux/lguest_bus.h
@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@ struct lguest_device {
         void *private;
 };
 
-/* By convention, each device can use irq index+1 if it wants to. */
+/*D:380 Since interrupt numbers are arbitrary, we use a convention: each device
+ * can use the interrupt number corresponding to its index.  The +1 is because
+ * interrupt 0 is not usable (it's actually the timer interrupt). */
 static inline int lgdev_irq(const struct lguest_device *dev)
 {
         return dev->index + 1;
 }
+/*:*/
 
 /* dma args must not be vmalloced! */
 void lguest_send_dma(unsigned long key, struct lguest_dma *dma);