From: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
To: Geoff Thorpe <geoff@geoffthorpe.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjk@hansjkoch.de, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uio: documentation fixups
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 03:05:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111104020553.GD2799@local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320248684-25191-1-git-send-email-geoff@geoffthorpe.net>
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 11:44:44AM -0400, Geoff Thorpe wrote:
> The 'name' attribute of struct uio_mem wasn't documented, and the note
> about 'kobj' is stale and needs to be changed to 'map'.
Great, thanks for sending a patch instead of just ignoring it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geoff Thorpe <geoff@geoffthorpe.net>
Signed-off-by: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
> ---
>
> I was hacking on some UIO-related code and noticed some minor
> glitches in the howto. Just sending it along to get it "off my desk",
> but please feel free to squash this into any other fixes/updates that
> may be pending.
>
> Regards,
> Geoff
>
> Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 7 ++++++-
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
> index bc4a709..8e98e2f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
> @@ -533,6 +533,11 @@ Here's a description of the fields of <varname>struct uio_mem</varname>:
>
> <itemizedlist>
> <listitem><para>
> +<varname>const char *name</varname>: Optional. Set this to help identify
> +the memory region, it will show up in the corresponding sysfs node.
> +</para></listitem>
> +
> +<listitem><para>
> <varname>int memtype</varname>: Required if the mapping is used. Set this to
> <varname>UIO_MEM_PHYS</varname> if you you have physical memory on your
> card to be mapped. Use <varname>UIO_MEM_LOGICAL</varname> for logical
> @@ -565,7 +570,7 @@ instead to remember such an address.
> </itemizedlist>
>
> <para>
> -Please do not touch the <varname>kobj</varname> element of
> +Please do not touch the <varname>map</varname> element of
> <varname>struct uio_mem</varname>! It is used by the UIO framework
> to set up sysfs files for this mapping. Simply leave it alone.
> </para>
> --
> 1.7.3.4
>
>
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