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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/device-io.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/device-io.rst index 5c7e8194bef9..d1aaa961cac4 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/device-io.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/device-io.rst @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Bus-Independent Device Accesses Introduction ============ -Linux provides an API which abstracts performing IO across all busses +Linux provides an API which abstracts performing IO across all buses and devices, allowing device drivers to be written independently of bus type. @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ can be compiler optimised, you can use __readb() and friends to indicate the relaxed ordering. Use this with care. While the basic functions are defined to be synchronous with respect to -each other and ordered with respect to each other the busses the devices +each other and ordered with respect to each other the buses the devices sit on may themselves have asynchronicity. In particular many authors are burned by the fact that PCI bus writes are posted asynchronously. A driver author must issue a read from the same device to ensure that |