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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-19 20:36:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-19 20:36:17 -0700
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
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diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt
index 37f4edcc5d87..3ed82383efea 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Introduction
------------
The kernel provides an interface to manage DMA transfers
- using the DMA channels in the cpu, so that the central
+ using the DMA channels in the CPU, so that the central
duty of managing channel mappings, and programming the
channel generators is in one place.
@@ -17,24 +17,24 @@ DMA Channel Ordering
channels to all sources, which means that some devices
have a restricted number of channels that can be used.
- To allow flexibilty for each cpu type and board, the
- dma code can be given an dma ordering structure which
+ To allow flexibility for each CPU type and board, the
+ DMA code can be given a DMA ordering structure which
allows the order of channel search to be specified, as
well as allowing the prohibition of certain claims.
struct s3c24xx_dma_order has a list of channels, and
- each channel within has a slot for a list of dma
- channel numbers. The slots are searched in order, for
- the presence of a dma channel number with DMA_CH_VALID
- orred in.
+ each channel within has a slot for a list of DMA
+ channel numbers. The slots are searched in order for
+ the presence of a DMA channel number with DMA_CH_VALID
+ or-ed in.
If the order has the flag DMA_CH_NEVER set, then after
checking the channel list, the system will return no
found channel, thus denying the request.
A board support file can call s3c24xx_dma_order_set()
- to register an complete ordering set. The routine will
- copy the data, so the original can be discared with
+ to register a complete ordering set. The routine will
+ copy the data, so the original can be discarded with
__initdata.