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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2006-11-06 23:17:20 +0100
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2006-11-07 04:27:51 -0500
commite78181feb0b94fb6afeaef3b28d4f5df1b847c98 (patch)
tree3da65acc511a4825de0f51f38affce498ec47e0d
parentc836b7716a97021128da43e6fdb61096d5c4156d (diff)
[PATCH] b44: change comment about irq mask register
Through some experimentation with the similarly built bcm43xx I came to the conclusion that if the hw/firmware sets a bit in the interrupt register, an interrupt will only be raised if that bit is included in the interrupt mask. Hence, the interrupt mask is more like an interrupt control mask. This patch changes the comment to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/b44.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/b44.c b/drivers/net/b44.c
index 1ec217433b4..474a4e3438d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/b44.c
+++ b/drivers/net/b44.c
@@ -908,8 +908,9 @@ static irqreturn_t b44_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
istat = br32(bp, B44_ISTAT);
imask = br32(bp, B44_IMASK);
- /* ??? What the fuck is the purpose of the interrupt mask
- * ??? register if we have to mask it out by hand anyways?
+ /* The interrupt mask register controls which interrupt bits
+ * will actually raise an interrupt to the CPU when set by hw/firmware,
+ * but doesn't mask off the bits.
*/
istat &= imask;
if (istat) {