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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-domain.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-domain.rst b/Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-domain.rst index 6979b4af2c1f..9c0e8758037a 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-domain.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-domain.rst @@ -175,9 +175,10 @@ for IRQ numbers that are passed to struct device registrations. In that case the Linux IRQ numbers cannot be dynamically assigned and the legacy mapping should be used. -As the name implies, the *_legacy() functions are deprecated and only +As the name implies, the \*_legacy() functions are deprecated and only exist to ease the support of ancient platforms. No new users should be -added. +added. Same goes for the \*_simple() functions when their use results +in the legacy behaviour. The legacy map assumes a contiguous range of IRQ numbers has already been allocated for the controller and that the IRQ number can be |