* [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
@ 2017-02-09 23:36 Nathan Howard
2017-02-12 22:20 ` Jonathan Corbet
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nathan Howard @ 2017-02-09 23:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet, linux-doc, linux-kernel; +Cc: Nathan Howard
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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* Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
2017-02-09 23:36 [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt Nathan Howard
@ 2017-02-12 22:20 ` Jonathan Corbet
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Corbet @ 2017-02-12 22:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nathan Howard; +Cc: linux-doc, linux-kernel
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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