From: Nathan Howard <adanhawthorn@gmail.com>
To: corbet@lwn.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nathan Howard <adanhawthorn@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:36:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1486683396-29638-1-git-send-email-adanhawthorn@gmail.com> (raw)
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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2017-02-09 23:36 Nathan Howard [this message]
2017-02-12 22:20 ` Jonathan Corbet
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