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2019-04-08Documentation: Kill all references to mmiowb()Will Deacon
The guarantees provided by mmiowb() are now provided implicitly by spin_unlock(), so remove all references to this most confusing of barriers from our Documentation. Good riddance. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2017-01-31docs: Convert the deviceio template to RSTJonathan Corbet
Convert deviceiobook.tmpl to RST and incorporate it into the driver API manual. Like the rest of our documentation, this one could use some work. There's no mention of ioremap() and friends, no mention of io_read*() and friends. But we have nice documentation for all those folks writing new drivers that do port I/O :). The :c:func: notation has been left off of all the read*/write* functions. There's no kerneldoc comments for them anyway, so those links will never be live, and writing a bunch of repetitive "read a byte from I/O memory" comments lacks appeal. Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>