[PATCH RESEND v2 5/8] Documentation: Update documentation for UIO_MEM_PHYS_CACHE and UIO_MEM_DEVICE

Anup Patel anup.patel at broadcom.com
Sun Aug 7 22:52:34 PDT 2016


From: Ankit Jindal <thatsjindal at gmail.com>

This patch updates UIO documentation for new mem region
types UIO_MEM_PHYS_CACHE and UIO_MEM_DEVICE.

Signed-off-by: Ankit Jindal <thatsjindal at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel at broadcom.com>
---
 Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
index cd0e452..de9dafe 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
@@ -529,8 +529,10 @@ the memory region, it will show up in the corresponding sysfs node.
 <varname>int memtype</varname>: Required if the mapping is used. Set this to
 <varname>UIO_MEM_PHYS</varname> if you you have physical memory on your
 card to be mapped. Use <varname>UIO_MEM_LOGICAL</varname> for logical
-memory (e.g. allocated with <function>kmalloc()</function>). There's also
-<varname>UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL</varname> for virtual memory.
+memory (e.g. allocated with <function>kmalloc()</function>). There are also
+<varname>UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL</varname> for virtual memory,
+<varname>UIO_MEM_PHYS_CACHE</varname> for cacheable physical memory and,
+<varname>UIO_MEM_DEVICE</varname> for memory mapped device registers.
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1.9.1




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