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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-09 21:54:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-09 21:54:17 +0200 |
| commit | 9a9136e270af14da506f66bcafcc506b86a86498 (patch) | |
| tree | b4d0a6877d92635134b7a944d0032fbc43227fd2 /Documentation/driver-model | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://www.atmel.no/~hskinnemoen/linux/kernel/avr32 (diff) | |
| parent | sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9a9136e270af14da506f66bcafcc506b86a86498.tar.xz linux-9a9136e270af14da506f66bcafcc506b86a86498.zip | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8
MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list
include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8
general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8
documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8
Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8.
remove broken URLs from net drivers' output
Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt
trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/
fix file specification in comments
drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc
misc doc and kconfig typos
Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text
Fix occurrences of "the the "
Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c
Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library
Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig
Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file.
Fix more "deprecated" spellos.
Fix "deprecated" typoes.
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Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-model')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt index f7c9262b2dc8..19c4a6e13676 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ host bridges to peripheral buses, and most controllers integrated into system-on-chip platforms. What they usually have in common is direct addressing from a CPU bus. Rarely, a platform_device will be connected through a segment of some other kind of bus; but its -registers will still be directly addressible. +registers will still be directly addressable. Platform devices are given a name, used in driver binding, and a list of resources such as addresses and IRQs. @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ three different ways to find such a match: usually register later during booting, or by module loading. - Registering a driver using platform_driver_probe() works just like - using platform_driver_register(), except that the the driver won't + using platform_driver_register(), except that the driver won't be probed later if another device registers. (Which is OK, since this interface is only for use with non-hotpluggable devices.) |