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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/eisa.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/eisa.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/eisa.txt b/Documentation/eisa.txt index 8c8388da868..a55e4910924 100644 --- a/Documentation/eisa.txt +++ b/Documentation/eisa.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The EISA infrastructure is made up of three parts : - The bus code implements most of the generic code. It is shared among all the architectures that the EISA code runs on. It - implements bus probing (detecting EISA cards avaible on the bus), + implements bus probing (detecting EISA cards available on the bus), allocates I/O resources, allows fancy naming through sysfs, and offers interfaces for driver to register. @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ res : root device I/O resource bus_base_addr : slot 0 address on this bus slots : max slot number to probe force_probe : Probe even when slot 0 is empty (no EISA mainboard) -dma_mask : Default DMA mask. Usualy the bridge device dma_mask. +dma_mask : Default DMA mask. Usually the bridge device dma_mask. bus_nr : unique bus id, set by eisa_root_register ** Driver : @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ struct eisa_driver { id_table : an array of NULL terminated EISA id strings, followed by an empty string. Each string can - optionnaly be paired with a driver-dependant value + optionally be paired with a driver-dependent value (driver_data). driver : a generic driver, such as described in @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ device. virtual_root.force_probe : Force the probing code to probe EISA slots even when it cannot find an -EISA compliant mainboard (nothing appears on slot 0). Defaultd to 0 +EISA compliant mainboard (nothing appears on slot 0). Defaults to 0 (don't force), and set to 1 (force probing) when either CONFIG_ALPHA_JENSEN or CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING are set. @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ CONFIG_ALPHA_JENSEN or CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING are set. Converting an EISA driver to the new API mostly involves *deleting* code (since probing is now in the core EISA code). Unfortunately, most -drivers share their probing routine between ISA, MCA and EISA. Special +drivers share their probing routine between ISA, and EISA. Special care must be taken when ripping out the EISA code, so other busses won't suffer from these surgical strikes... |