The patch titled Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt: fix description has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is documentation-i386-io-apictxt-fix-description.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt: fix description From: Nick Andrew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The description of the interrupt routing doesn't match the (nice) diagram. Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt~documentation-i386-io-apictxt-fix-description Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt --- a/Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt~documentation-i386-io-apictxt-fix-description +++ a/Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ every PCI card emits a PCI IRQ, which ca These INTA-D PCI IRQs are always 'local to the card', their real meaning depends on which slot they are in. If you look at the daisy chaining diagram, -a card in slot4, issuing INTA IRQ, it will end up as a signal on PIRQ2 of +a card in slot4, issuing INTA IRQ, it will end up as a signal on PIRQ4 of the PCI chipset. Most cards issue INTA, this creates optimal distribution between the PIRQ lines. (distributing IRQ sources properly is not a necessity, PCI IRQs can be shared at will, but it's a good for performance _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are documentation-i386-io-apictxt-fix-description.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html