From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Correct explanations of "find_next" bit routines.
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:18:39 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710030916410.27061@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
Correct the obvious "copy and paste" errors explaining some of the
"find_next" routines.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
---
arch/i386/lib/bitops.c | 2 +-
arch/x86_64/lib/bitops.c | 2 +-
include/asm-i386/bitops.h | 5 ++---
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/i386/lib/bitops.c b/arch/i386/lib/bitops.c
index afd0045..b654404 100644
--- a/arch/i386/lib/bitops.c
+++ b/arch/i386/lib/bitops.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
/**
- * find_next_bit - find the first set bit in a memory region
+ * find_next_bit - find the next set bit in a memory region
* @addr: The address to base the search on
* @offset: The bitnumber to start searching at
* @size: The maximum size to search
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/lib/bitops.c b/arch/x86_64/lib/bitops.c
index 95b6d96..0e8f491 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/lib/bitops.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/lib/bitops.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ long find_first_zero_bit(const unsigned long * addr, unsigned long size)
}
/**
- * find_next_zero_bit - find the first zero bit in a memory region
+ * find_next_zero_bit - find the next zero bit in a memory region
* @addr: The address to base the search on
* @offset: The bitnumber to start searching at
* @size: The maximum size to search
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/bitops.h b/include/asm-i386/bitops.h
index a20fe98..700b1a2 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/bitops.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/bitops.h
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#ifndef _I386_BITOPS_H
#define _I386_BITOPS_H
/*
@@ -297,7 +296,7 @@ static inline int find_first_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned size)
}
/**
- * find_next_zero_bit - find the first zero bit in a memory region
+ * find_next_zero_bit - find the next zero bit in a memory region
* @addr: The address to base the search on
* @offset: The bitnumber to start searching at
* @size: The maximum size to search
@@ -340,7 +339,7 @@ static inline unsigned find_first_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned size)
}
/**
- * find_next_bit - find the first set bit in a memory region
+ * find_next_bit - find the next set bit in a memory region
* @addr: The address to base the search on
* @offset: The bitnumber to start searching at
* @size: The maximum size to search
--
========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
http://crashcourse.ca
========================================================================
next reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 13:22 UTC|newest]
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2007-10-03 13:18 Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2007-10-03 17:32 ` Randy Dunlap
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