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| From | Nathan Howard <adanhawthorn@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt |
| Date | 2017-02-10 00:50 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <t96Do-4dg-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Fixed spelling issue. Signed-off-by: Nathan Howard <adanhawthorn@gmail.com> --- Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt index b1a1983..c413313 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ requirements you pass the flag GFP_DMA to kmalloc. Unfortunately the memory available for ISA DMA is scarce so unless you allocate the memory during boot-up it's a good idea to also pass -__GFP_REPEAT and __GFP_NOWARN to make the allocater try a bit harder. +__GFP_REPEAT and __GFP_NOWARN to make the allocator try a bit harder. (This scarcity also means that you should allocate the buffer as early as possible and not release it until the driver is unloaded.) -- 2.7.4
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[PATCH 2/2] Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt Nathan Howard <adanhawthorn@gmail.com> - 2017-02-10 00:50 +0100 Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2017-02-12 23:30 +0100
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