diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst index c07565ba57da..3563e5f7e98d 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ This document groups random notes about porting EISA drivers to the new EISA/sysfs API. Starting from version 2.5.59, the EISA bus is almost given the same -status as other much more mainstream busses such as PCI or USB. This +status as other much more mainstream buses such as PCI or USB. This has been possible through sysfs, which defines a nice enough set of -abstractions to manage busses, devices and drivers. +abstractions to manage buses, devices and drivers. Although the new API is quite simple to use, converting existing drivers to the new infrastructure is not an easy task (mostly because @@ -189,15 +189,15 @@ eisa_bus.enable_dev initialize the device in such conditions. eisa_bus.disable_dev - A comma-separated list of slots to be enabled, even if the firmware + A comma-separated list of slots to be disabled, even if the firmware set the card as enabled. The driver won't be called to handle this device. virtual_root.force_probe Force the probing code to probe EISA slots even when it cannot find an EISA compliant mainboard (nothing appears on slot 0). Defaults to 0 - (don't force), and set to 1 (force probing) when either - CONFIG_ALPHA_JENSEN or CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING are set. + (don't force), and set to 1 (force probing) when + CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING is set. Random notes ============ @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Random notes Converting an EISA driver to the new API mostly involves *deleting* code (since probing is now in the core EISA code). Unfortunately, most drivers share their probing routine between ISA, and EISA. Special -care must be taken when ripping out the EISA code, so other busses +care must be taken when ripping out the EISA code, so other buses won't suffer from these surgical strikes... You *must not* expect any EISA device to be detected when returning |