MSI-HOWTO.txt: remove reference on IRQF_DISABLED
The IRQF_DISABLED is a NOOP and scheduled to be removed. According to Ingo Molnar in commit e58aa3d2 (genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts disabled), running IRQ handlers with interrupts enabled can cause stack overflows when the interrupt line of the issuing device is still active. This patch removes IRQF_DISABLED from this documentation. It was mentioned to be a solution to avoid deadlocks when a device uses multiple interrupts. As the flag is a NOOP this solution does not work anymore. Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <Valentin.Rothberg@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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