diff --git a/drivers/pci/msi.c b/drivers/pci/msi.c
index d9c73c173c14..217dc9f0231f 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/msi.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c
@@ -871,8 +871,15 @@ static int pci_msi_supported(struct pci_dev *dev, int nvec)
 	 * Any bridge which does NOT route MSI transactions from its
 	 * secondary bus to its primary bus must set NO_MSI flag on
 	 * the secondary pci_bus.
-	 * We expect only arch-specific PCI host bus controller driver
-	 * or quirks for specific PCI bridges to be setting NO_MSI.
+	 *
+	 * The NO_MSI flag can either be set directly by:
+	 * - arch-specific PCI host bus controller drivers (deprecated)
+	 * - quirks for specific PCI bridges
+	 *
+	 * or indirectly by platform-specific PCI host bridge drivers by
+	 * advertising the 'msi_domain' property, which results in
+	 * the NO_MSI flag when no MSI domain is found for this bridge
+	 * at probe time.
 	 */
 	for (bus = dev->bus; bus; bus = bus->parent)
 		if (bus->bus_flags & PCI_BUS_FLAGS_NO_MSI)