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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-02 10:21:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-02 10:21:17 -0700
commitc58d4055c054fc6dc72f1be8bc71bd6fff209e48 (patch)
tree56527e28fc65d74d6d5e8397c502ccc87a9ec99b /block/genhd.c
parentceb198bb007b84ead867e87a71ffe715c4412b15 (diff)
parent9bb0e9cb04c82d6bf0e72f3207307d621083b801 (diff)
Merge tag 'docs-4.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "A reasonably busy cycle for documentation this time around. There is a new guide for user-space API documents, rather sparsely populated at the moment, but it's a start. Markus improved the infrastructure for converting diagrams. Mauro has converted much of the USB documentation over to RST. Plus the usual set of fixes, improvements, and tweaks. There's a bit more than the usual amount of reaching out of Documentation/ to fix comments elsewhere in the tree; I have acks for those where I could get them" * tag 'docs-4.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits) docs: Fix a couple typos docs: Fix a spelling error in vfio-mediated-device.txt docs: Fix a spelling error in ioctl-number.txt MAINTAINERS: update file entry for HSI subsystem Documentation: allow installing man pages to a user defined directory Doc/PM: Sync with intel_powerclamp code behavior zr364xx.rst: usb/devices is now at /sys/kernel/debug/ usb.rst: move documentation from proc_usb_info.txt to USB ReST book convert philips.txt to ReST and add to media docs docs-rst: usb: update old usbfs-related documentation arm: Documentation: update a path name docs: process/4.Coding.rst: Fix a couple of document refs docs-rst: fix usb cross-references usb: gadget.h: be consistent at kernel doc macros usb: composite.h: fix two warnings when building docs usb: get rid of some ReST doc build errors usb.rst: get rid of some Sphinx errors usb/URB.txt: convert to ReST and update it usb/persist.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book usb/hotplug.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book ...
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diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 9a2d01abfa3b..d252d29fe837 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -271,16 +271,17 @@ void blkdev_show(struct seq_file *seqf, off_t offset)
/**
* register_blkdev - register a new block device
*
- * @major: the requested major device number [1..255]. If @major=0, try to
+ * @major: the requested major device number [1..255]. If @major = 0, try to
* allocate any unused major number.
* @name: the name of the new block device as a zero terminated string
*
* The @name must be unique within the system.
*
- * The return value depends on the @major input parameter.
+ * The return value depends on the @major input parameter:
+ *
* - if a major device number was requested in range [1..255] then the
* function returns zero on success, or a negative error code
- * - if any unused major number was requested with @major=0 parameter
+ * - if any unused major number was requested with @major = 0 parameter
* then the return value is the allocated major number in range
* [1..255] or a negative error code otherwise
*/