[PATCH 16/25] Docs: kernel-hacking: soft[ware]

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Clarify `soft interrupt' by introducing a hint of the
language used earlier.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
index 64d0dc3..8f8f350 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
@@ -792,8 +792,8 @@
     <filename class="headerfile">include/linux/interrupt.h</filename></title>
 
    <para>
-    These routines disable soft interrupts on the local CPU, and
-    restore them.  They are reentrant; if soft interrupts were
+    These routines disable or enable soft[ware] interrupts on the local CPU.
+    They are reentrant; if soft interrupts were
     disabled before, they will still be disabled after this pair
     of functions has been called.  They prevent softirqs and tasklets
     from running on the current CPU.
-- 
1.7.0.94.gf7311

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