There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other
Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are
caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the
Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd.
Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text
they were part of.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Now that URB_NO_SETUP_DMA_MAP is no longer in use, this patch (as1376)
removes all references to it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
For more clearance what the functions actually do,
usb_buffer_alloc() is renamed to usb_alloc_coherent()
usb_buffer_free() is renamed to usb_free_coherent()
They should only be used in code which really needs DMA coherency.
All call sites have been changed accordingly, except for staging
drivers.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Move DMA-mapping.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
DMA-mapping.txt was supposed to be moved from Documentation/ to
Documentation/PCI/. The 00-INDEX files in those two directories
were updated, along with a few other text files, but the file
itself somehow escaped being moved, so move it and update more
text files and source files with its new location.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch updates some of the documentation about DMA buffer management
for USB, and ways to avoid extra copying. Our understanding of the issues
has improved over time.
- Most drivers should *avoid* the dma-coherent allocators. There are
a few exceptions (like the HID driver).
- Some methods are currently commented out; it seems folk writing
USB drivers aren't doing performance tuning at that level yet.
- Just avoid highmem; there's no good way to pass an "I can do highmem
DMA" capability through a driver stack. This is easy, everything
already avoids highmem. But it'd be nice if x86_32 systems with much
physical memory could use it directly with network adapters and mass
storage devices. (Patch, anyone?)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Paul Bolle
Alan Stern
Daniel Mack
Randy Dunlap
David Brownell
Linus Torvalds