From 19c2eaa46491232e2130f4015e6847c7722a0ea5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matti Kortelainen <matti.kortelainen@cern.ch>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 22:32:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify ProcessAccelerator documentation

---
 FWCore/ParameterSet/python/Config.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/FWCore/ParameterSet/python/Config.py b/FWCore/ParameterSet/python/Config.py
index 671233afbe8e7..173cf6f76743a 100644
--- a/FWCore/ParameterSet/python/Config.py
+++ b/FWCore/ParameterSet/python/Config.py
@@ -1983,6 +1983,11 @@ class ProcessAccelerator(_ConfigureComponent,_Unlabelable):
     it would be good to have specific unit test for each deriving
     class to ensure that all combinations of the enabled accelerators
     give the same configuration hash.
+
+    The deriving class must do its checks for hardware availability
+    only in enabledLabels(), and possibly in apply() if any further
+    fine-tuning is needed, because those two are the only functions
+    that are guaranteed to be called at the worker node.
     """
     def __init__(self):
         pass