Revision b11e7b81bf94f633ae44f12a3d2e198277781952 authored by Linus Torvalds on 27 September 2015, 00:56:50 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 27 September 2015, 00:56:50 UTC
Pull staging driver fixes from Greg KH: "Here are some tiny staging driver and documentation fixes for 4.3-rc3. All of these resolve reported issues that people have found and have been in the linux-next tree for a while with no problems" * tag 'staging-4.3-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: MAINTAINERS: Update email address for Martyn Welch staging: ion: fix corruption of ion_import_dma_buf staging: dgap: Remove myself from the MAINTAINERS file staging: most: Add dependency to HAS_IOMEM staging: unisys: remove reference of visorutil staging: unisys: visornic: handle error return from device registration staging: unisys: stop device registration before visorbus registration staging: unisys: visorbus: Unregister driver on error staging: unisys: visornic: Fix receive bytes statistics staging: unisys: unregister netdev when create debugfs fails staging: fbtft: replace master->setup() with spi_setup() staging: fbtft: fix 9-bit SPI support detection staging/lustre: change Lustre URLs and mailing list staging/android: Update ION TODO per LPC discussion Staging: most: MOST and MOSTCORE should depend on HAS_DMA staging: most: fix HDM_USB dependencies and build errors
IRQ.txt
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.
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.
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 controller in the system. In the case of ISA
what is enumerated are the 16 input pins on 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
of the hardware involved. The ISA IRQs are a classic example of
assigning this kind of additional meaning.
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