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| author | Martyn Welch <martyn@welchs.me.uk> | 2016-06-05 23:35:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-08-31 14:20:16 +0300 |
| commit | 76deefa3b797cc2014581cb0337dc207e9ab3a3d (patch) | |
| tree | b2cd55a0bf776c688a923d453761bfec13bb2e5c /Documentation/vme_api.txt | |
| parent | fa54b326803d91b04705a6adf0ff963593a9fe5c (diff) | |
| download | linux-76deefa3b797cc2014581cb0337dc207e9ab3a3d.tar.xz | |
vme: Update documentation to match api
The vme_register_driver() api changed in commit 5d6abf379d73 ("staging:
vme: make match() driver specific to improve non-VME64x support") but the
documentation wasn't updated. Update the documentation to match the API.
Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn@welchs.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vme_api.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vme_api.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vme_api.txt b/Documentation/vme_api.txt index 4ca63a6eca24..90006550f485 100644 --- a/Documentation/vme_api.txt +++ b/Documentation/vme_api.txt @@ -8,13 +8,14 @@ As with other subsystems within the Linux kernel, VME device drivers register with the VME subsystem, typically called from the devices init routine. This is achieved via a call to the following function: - int vme_register_driver (struct vme_driver *driver); + int vme_register_driver (struct vme_driver *driver, unsigned int ndevs); If driver registration is successful this function returns zero, if an error occurred a negative error code will be returned. A pointer to a structure of type 'vme_driver' must be provided to the -registration function. The structure is as follows: +registration function. Along with ndevs, which is the number of devices your +driver is able to support. The structure is as follows: struct vme_driver { struct list_head node; @@ -32,8 +33,8 @@ At the minimum, the '.name', '.match' and '.probe' elements of this structure should be correctly set. The '.name' element is a pointer to a string holding the device driver's name. -The '.match' function allows controlling the number of devices that need to -be registered. The match function should return 1 if a device should be +The '.match' function allows control over which VME devices should be registered +with the driver. The match function should return 1 if a device should be probed and 0 otherwise. This example match function (from vme_user.c) limits the number of devices probed to one: |