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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-10-30 10:40:50 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-10-30 15:14:29 +0300 |
commit | 54a19b4d3fe0fa0a31b46cd60951e8177cac25fa (patch) | |
tree | b84ba6fc592daf836a6f42c6a1ba5eda91d73c73 /Documentation/ABI/stable | |
parent | ed8c39d43983d19f181ff47af0374c4e252f84bd (diff) | |
download | linux-54a19b4d3fe0fa0a31b46cd60951e8177cac25fa.tar.xz |
docs: ABI: cleanup several ABI documents
There are some ABI documents that, while they don't generate
any warnings, they have issues when parsed by get_abi.pl script
on its output result.
Address them, in order to provide a clean output.
Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> # for fpga-manager
Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain<kjain@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_gpci and sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> #for IIO
Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> # for Habanalabs
Acked-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-papr-pmem
Acked-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> # for catpt
Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> # for rbd
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bc78e5b68ed1e9e39135173857cb2e753be868f.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/stable')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/stable/firewire-cdev | 65 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-w1 | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-speakup | 4 |
5 files changed, 43 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/firewire-cdev b/Documentation/ABI/stable/firewire-cdev index c9e8ff026154..261f85b13154 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/firewire-cdev +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/firewire-cdev @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Description: different scope: - The 1394 node which is associated with the file: + - Asynchronous request transmission - Get the Configuration ROM - Query node ID @@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ Description: and local node - The 1394 bus (i.e. "card") to which the node is attached to: + - Isochronous stream transmission and reception - Asynchronous stream transmission and reception - Asynchronous broadcast request transmission @@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ Description: - Bus reset initiation, bus reset event reception - All 1394 buses: + - Allocation of IEEE 1212 address ranges on the local link layers, reception of inbound requests to such an address range, asynchronous response transmission @@ -59,50 +62,50 @@ Description: The following file operations are supported: open(2) - Currently the only useful flags are O_RDWR. + Currently the only useful flags are O_RDWR. ioctl(2) - Initiate various actions. Some take immediate effect, others - are performed asynchronously while or after the ioctl returns. - See the inline documentation in <linux/firewire-cdev.h> for - descriptions of all ioctls. + Initiate various actions. Some take immediate effect, others + are performed asynchronously while or after the ioctl returns. + See the inline documentation in <linux/firewire-cdev.h> for + descriptions of all ioctls. poll(2), select(2), epoll_wait(2) etc. - Watch for events to become available to be read. + Watch for events to become available to be read. read(2) - Receive various events. There are solicited events like - outbound asynchronous transaction completion or isochronous - buffer completion, and unsolicited events such as bus resets, - request reception, or PHY packet reception. Always use a read - buffer which is large enough to receive the largest event that - could ever arrive. See <linux/firewire-cdev.h> for descriptions - of all event types and for which ioctls affect reception of - events. + Receive various events. There are solicited events like + outbound asynchronous transaction completion or isochronous + buffer completion, and unsolicited events such as bus resets, + request reception, or PHY packet reception. Always use a read + buffer which is large enough to receive the largest event that + could ever arrive. See <linux/firewire-cdev.h> for descriptions + of all event types and for which ioctls affect reception of + events. mmap(2) - Allocate a DMA buffer for isochronous reception or transmission - and map it into the process address space. The arguments should - be used as follows: addr = NULL, length = the desired buffer - size, i.e. number of packets times size of largest packet, - prot = at least PROT_READ for reception and at least PROT_WRITE - for transmission, flags = MAP_SHARED, fd = the handle to the - /dev/fw*, offset = 0. + Allocate a DMA buffer for isochronous reception or transmission + and map it into the process address space. The arguments should + be used as follows: addr = NULL, length = the desired buffer + size, i.e. number of packets times size of largest packet, + prot = at least PROT_READ for reception and at least PROT_WRITE + for transmission, flags = MAP_SHARED, fd = the handle to the + /dev/fw*, offset = 0. Isochronous reception works in packet-per-buffer fashion except for multichannel reception which works in buffer-fill mode. munmap(2) - Unmap the isochronous I/O buffer from the process address space. + Unmap the isochronous I/O buffer from the process address space. close(2) - Besides stopping and freeing I/O contexts that were associated - with the file descriptor, back out any changes to the local - nodes' Configuration ROM. Deallocate isochronous channels and - bandwidth at the IRM that were marked for kernel-assisted - re- and deallocation. - -Users: libraw1394 - libdc1394 - libhinawa + Besides stopping and freeing I/O contexts that were associated + with the file descriptor, back out any changes to the local + nodes' Configuration ROM. Deallocate isochronous channels and + bandwidth at the IRM that were marked for kernel-assisted + re- and deallocation. + +Users: libraw1394; + libdc1394; + libhinawa; tools like linux-firewire-utils, fwhack, ... diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile index fd97d22b677f..2d6314f0e4e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-acpi-pmprofile @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -What: /sys/firmware/acpi/pm_profile +What: /sys/firmware/acpi/pm_profile Date: 03-Nov-2011 KernelVersion: v3.2 Contact: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org -Description: The ACPI pm_profile sysfs interface exports the platform +Description: The ACPI pm_profile sysfs interface exports the platform power management (and performance) requirement expectations as provided by BIOS. The integer value is directly passed as retrieved from the FADT ACPI table. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-w1 b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-w1 index 992dfb183ed0..5cd5e872bcae 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-w1 +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-w1 @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Description: Bus scanning interval, microseconds component. control systems are attached/generate presence for as short as 100 ms - hence the tens-to-hundreds milliseconds scan intervals are required. + see Documentation/w1/w1-generic.rst for detailed information. Users: any user space application which wants to know bus scanning interval diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm index ec464cf7861a..91ca63ec7581 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-tpm @@ -191,6 +191,6 @@ Contact: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org Description: The "tpm_version_major" property shows the TCG spec major version implemented by the TPM device. - Example output: + Example output:: - 2 + 2 diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-speakup b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-speakup index c6a32c434ce9..792f58ba327d 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-speakup +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-speakup @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ Description: Controls if typing interrupts output from speakup. With speakup if for example the say screen command is used before the entire screen is read. + With no_interrupt set to one, if the say screen command is used, and one then types on the keyboard, speakup will continue to say the whole screen regardless until @@ -215,8 +216,10 @@ Description: This file contains names for key states. Again, these are part of the help system. For instance, if you had pressed speakup + keypad 3, you would hear: "speakup keypad 3 is go to bottom edge." + The speakup key is depressed, so the name of the key state is speakup. + This part of the message comes from the states collection. What: /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n/characters @@ -297,6 +300,7 @@ KernelVersion: 2.6 Contact: speakup@linux-speakup.org Description: Controls if punctuation is spoken by speakup, or by the synthesizer. + For example, speakup speaks ">" as "greater", while the espeak synthesizer used by the soft driver speaks "greater than". Zero lets speakup speak the punctuation. One lets the |