Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt

From	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
Date	2017-02-12 23:30 +0100
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On Thu,  9 Feb 2017 18:36:36 -0500
Nathan Howard <adanhawthorn@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.)

Applied, thanks.

jon

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[PATCH 2/2] Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt Nathan Howard <adanhawthorn@gmail.com> - 2017-02-10 00:50 +0100
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