[PATCH 29/44] x86: Better comments for get_bios_ebda()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-05-20T00:15:56Z

From: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>

Make the comments a bit clearer for get_bios_ebda so that it actually
tells us what it is returning.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h | 7 +++++--
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h
index 5174cf0..aa6a317 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@
#include <asm/io.h>

/*
- * there is a real-mode segmented pointer pointing to the
- * 4K EBDA area at 0x40E.
+ * Returns physical address of EBDA. Returns 0 if there is no EBDA.
*/
static inline unsigned int get_bios_ebda(void)
{
+ /*
+ * There is a real-mode segmented pointer pointing to the
+ * 4K EBDA area at 0x40E.
+ */
unsigned int address = *(unsigned short *)phys_to_virt(0x40E);
address <<= 4;
return address; /* 0 means none */
--
1.7.4.2