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authorMichael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>2011-07-14 17:53:54 +0000
committerMichael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>2011-08-02 21:34:30 +0000
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Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use the subjunctive, and change `can' to `may'
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
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@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ arrived in memory (this becomes more likely with devices behind PCI-PCI
bridges). In order to ensure that all the data has arrived in memory,
the interrupt handler must read a register on the device which raised
the interrupt. PCI transaction ordering rules require that all the data
-arrives in memory before the value can be returned from the register.
+arrive in memory before the value may be returned from the register.
Using MSIs avoids this problem as the interrupt-generating write cannot
pass the data writes, so by the time the interrupt is raised, the driver
knows that all the data has arrived in memory.