Re: [PATCH] documentation: xip documentation update

Marco Stornelli
2008-09-23T07:02:00Z

Ok, have I to submit the patch again with this new line?

Randy Dunlap ha scritto:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:37:52 +0200 Marco Stornelli wrote:
>
>> From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
>>
>> xip documentation updated
>> Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> --- linux-2.6.26.5/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt.orig 2008-08-20 20:11:37.000000000 +0200
>> +++ linux-2.6.26.5/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt 2008-09-22 11:27:46.000000000 +0200
>> @@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ The block device operation is optional,
>> today:
>> - dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver
>>
>> -An address space operation named get_xip_page is used to retrieve reference
>> -to a struct page. To address the target page, a reference to an address_space,
>> -and a sector number is provided. A 3rd argument indicates whether the
>> -function should allocate blocks if needed.
>> +An address space operation named get_xip_mem is used to retrieve reference
>> +to a page frame number and a kernel address. To obtain these values a reference
>> +to an address_space is provided. This function is in charge to assign values to
>
> How about:
> This function assigns values to the kmem and
> pfn parameters.
>
>> +the pointers kmem and pfn. The 3rd argument indicates whether the function
>> +should allocate blocks if needed.
>>
>> This address space operation is mutually exclusive with readpage&writepage that
>> do page cache read/write operations.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> ---
> ~Randy
>

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