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authormstsirkin <mstsirkin@0c8fb4dd-22a2-4bb5-bc14-6c75a5f43652>2015-08-02 11:41:54 +0000
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@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ configuration information (the network device does this for filtering,
otherwise the table in the config space could potentially be very
large).
-Remember that configuration fields over 32 bits wide might not be
-atomically writable by the driver.
+Remember that configuration fields over 32 bits wide might not be atomically
+writable by the driver. Therefore, no writeable field which triggers an
+action ought to be wider than 32 bits.
\section{What Device Number?}\label{sec:Creating New Device Types / What Device Number?}