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| author | Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> | 2014-04-30 11:20:53 -0600 |
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| committer | Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> | 2014-05-20 16:54:21 -0600 |
| commit | 77f2ea2f8d0833f9e976368481fb9a0775acf9e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 007a1fb1dcfa6f9cb0baa26548af80b90148fabd /Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt | |
| parent | c9eaa447e77efe77b7fa4c953bd62de8297fd6c5 (diff) | |
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DMA-API: Clarify physical/bus address distinction
The DMA-API documentation sometimes refers to "physical addresses" when it
really means "bus addresses." Sometimes these are identical, but they may
be different if the bridge leading to the bus performs address translation.
Update the documentation to use "bus address" when appropriate.
Also, consistently capitalize "DMA", use parens with function names, use
dev_printk() in examples, and reword a few sections for clarity.
No functional change; documentation changes only.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <jbottomley@Parallels.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt index e767805b4182..b1a19835e907 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ To do ISA style DMA you need to include two headers: #include <asm/dma.h> The first is the generic DMA API used to convert virtual addresses to -physical addresses (see Documentation/DMA-API.txt for details). +bus addresses (see Documentation/DMA-API.txt for details). The second contains the routines specific to ISA DMA transfers. Since this is not present on all platforms make sure you construct your @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ early as possible and not release it until the driver is unloaded.) Part III - Address translation ------------------------------ -To translate the virtual address to a physical use the normal DMA +To translate the virtual address to a bus address, use the normal DMA API. Do _not_ use isa_virt_to_phys() even though it does the same thing. The reason for this is that the function isa_virt_to_phys() will require a Kconfig dependency to ISA, not just ISA_DMA_API which |