Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt index b1a1983..c413313 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ requirements you pass the flag GFP_DMA to kmalloc. Unfortunately the memory available for ISA DMA is scarce so unless you allocate the memory during boot-up it's a good idea to also pass -__GFP_REPEAT and __GFP_NOWARN to make the allocater try a bit harder. +__GFP_REPEAT and __GFP_NOWARN to make the allocator try a bit harder. (This scarcity also means that you should allocate the buffer as early as possible and not release it until the driver is unloaded.) -- 2.8.2.534.g1f66975 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
